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Personnage sous une arcade faite d'architecture construite et de rochers: P.2201-1991

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Personnage sous une arcade faite d'architecture construite et de rochers
Translated as: Figure standing under a stone arch
Rovine Inventione (Views of ruins)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Legeay, Jean Laurent

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Categories

Legal notes

Bequest of Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950, transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

1760s
Production date: AD 1768

Note

Impression with signature burnished off plate at lower left (later state?).

School or Style

French

Materials used in production

Black carbon ink

Components of the work

Support composed of laid paper
Plate Height 190 mm Width 159 mm
Sheet Height 204 mm Width 173 mm

Techniques used in production

Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.2201-1991
Primary reference Number: 95346
BN Inventaire (18thC): 30 (?)

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 15 October 2025

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

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