Series of 6 numbered postcards, with narrative captions, depicting a French child as advocate
Alternative Title:
Postcards depicting a child as advocate, Legally themed postcards depicting a child as advocate, and Rappelez-vous Lesurques
Description:
All postcards include manuscript notations and addressed to "Mademoiselle Laure Wattenne, Forest. par Aseg[?]"on verso., Caption on card number 6, "... Rappelez-vous Lesurques ...," refers to a notorious case of miscarriage of justice from 1796, Joseph Lesurques., Date from postmark and manuscript date, June 1902., In lower left corner: Collection G.I.D., Nantes., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281676, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.3 tall., In French., Online resource; description based on print version record. , and Accompanied by translation.
Publisher:
Royer et Cie
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Wattenne, Laure, Aseg, and Lesurques, Joseph, 1763-1796.
First image, 'Painting after life' shows a skeleton (death) seated before an easel painting a portrait of the obese old man seated opposite and holding a cane. The subject is seated against a blank screen; a portfolio of other works is leaning against the screen. Beside the 'artist' is a box of paints and artist supplies and Second image, 'Death staring shipwrecked sailors in the face!!!', shows a skeleton (right) seated on a rock with his head resting in his hands, elbows on his knees as he stares at two shipwrecked sailors (left) on a beach
Alternative Title:
Death staring shipwrecked sailors in the face!!!
Description:
Each print titled below., Lewis Walpole Library: On the verso: an autograph letter from Ebenezer Gerard in Liverpool to Samuel Taylor Liverpool, dated 1826 February 5, in reference to "Prose by a poet" (by Montgomery James) which he compares to his own efforts since his illness, with the address incorporating watercolor and rebus material., Painting after life referencing Hogarth?, and For further information, consult library staff.
A group of portrait drawings depicting some of the correspondents included in a French collection of Madame du Deffand's letters. The drawings are inserted throughout both volumes of the printed text, supplementing the engraved portraits and other plates that were either issued with the work or added later
Description:
Collection title devised by cataloger., All but one of the drawings have the sitter's name added in pencil below, and all but two are signed "ABaudet Bauderval" (with the initial letters forming a monogram). The artist is tentaitvely identified as A. Baudet-Bauderval, a lithographer who was active in France in the mid-19th century; see person record in the online catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France., Bound in a copy of: Du Deffand, M. Correspondance complète de la marquise du Deffand avec ses amis le président Hénault-Montesquieu-d'Alembert-Voltaire-Horace Walpole ... Paris : H. Plon, 1865., and Extra-illustrated with plates, portraits, drawings.
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780, d'Averne, Sophie de Brégis, comtesse, active 1721-1723,, Pont-de-Veyle, 1697-1774,, Choiseul, Louise Honorine Crozat, duchesse de, 1734-1801,, Saint-Lambert, Jean-François de, 1716-1803,, Luynes, Marie Brûlart de La Borde, duchesse de, 1684?-1763,, Chaulnes, Anne Josèphe Bonnier de La Mosson, duchesse de, 1718-1787,, Vallière, Anne Julie Françoise de Crussol, duchesse de, 1713-1797,, Luxembourg, Madeleine-Angélique de Neufville-Villeroy, duchesse de, 1707-1787,, and Rochefort, Marie Thérèse de Larlan de Kercadio, comtesse de, 1716-1782,