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Tableaux des dieux, demi-dieux et héros de la fable: P.2217-1991

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Tableaux des dieux, demi-dieux et héros de la fable

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mixelle, Jean Marie
Publisher: Pavard

Entities

Categories

Legal notes

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

Place(s) associated

  • Paris

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Production date: AD 1787

Note

Title plate to 'Tableaux de la fable', by Sylvain Maréchal?

School or Style

French

Materials used in production

Watercolour
Black carbon ink

Components of the work

Support composed of laid paper ( lined with laid paper)
Plate Height 116 mm Width 85 mm
Sheet Height 116 mm Width 85 mm
Verso

Techniques used in production

Aquatint
Hand colouring
Etching

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: TABLEAUX / DES DIEUX / DEMI-DIEUX/ & HÉROS / DE LA FABLE
  • Location: Image centre, on drapery
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Title
  • Text: 1787.
  • Location: Image lower centre, on drapery, below the above
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Date
  • Text: Mixelle J. Sculp.
  • Location: Image lower right
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Signature
  • Text: A Paris chez Pavard, Rue St Jacques, No. 240 / Et ce Trouve chez les Principeaux Libraire
  • Location: Image lower centre
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: L. François Scrip.
  • Location: Plate lower centre
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: LETTRES / A ÉMILE, / SUR LA MYTHOLOGIE.
  • Location: Verso, on lining
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: lettres a emile
  • Location: Verso, on lining
  • Method of creation: Brown ink
  • Type: Inscription

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.2217-1991
Primary reference Number: 95401
Portalis/Béraldi: p. 108
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 2 March 2023 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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