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Le Chasseur et les Eléphans: 24.K.12-298

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Le Chasseur et les Eléphans
Les Fables de La Motte

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gillot, Claude

Entities

Categories

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount

Dating

18th Century
Production date: AD 1719

Note

One of 68 plates originally conceived as book-illustatrations for 'Fables Nouvelles Dédiées au Roi par M. De La Motte, de l'Académie Françoise, Avec un Discours sur la Fable' (1719, Dupuis, Paris). This plate appeared on p.349 (Book V).

School or Style

French

Techniques used in production

Engraving
Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: 24.K.12-298
Primary reference Number: 182011
Populus (Gillot): 97
BN Inventaire (18thC): 97
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Sunday 7 August 2011 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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