Title from caption below image. and Place and date of publication based on similarity to portraits in: Perrault, C. Les hommes illustrés qui ont paru en France pendant ce siècle, 1696-1700.
Delegorgue-Cordier, Jean François Prosper, 1781-1856, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1815 and 1856]
Call Number:
Portraits Se511 no. 1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Madame de Sévigné, bust to left, looking to front, her hair curled, wearing a low-necked gown, in a border with lyres and medals."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1860,0714.45., Text below title and engraver's statement: Tiré du Cabinet de Mr. Traullé, Chevalier des Ordres de St. Louis & de la Légion d'Honneur., and "Déposé au Beau. des Estampes"--Beneath image in lower left.
Publisher:
Chez Bernard, Md. d'estampes, Boulevard des Italiens No. 11
Subject (Name):
Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de, 1626-1696,
Half-length, oval portrait in a square, shown in profile. The Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence tentatively identifies her as Mme. Frotier-de-la-Messalière. See: The Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 6, pages 344-347, 368 and v. 41, page 350
Description:
Title engraved in image, below portrait., Also signed in image: "Pouget delineavit et sculp.", "Pl. Ire"--Upper left corner., Quote from Milton below title, in English and French: "Grace in all her steps, heav'n in her eye, In every gesture Dignity and Love ...", The Lewis Walpole Library impression: Horace Walpole's note below imprint reads: "Mistress of George Visc. Bury, afterwards Earl of Albemarle.", and Sheet trimmed?
BEIN BrSides 2019 527: Uncolored. On sheet 41.0 x 27.4 cm. Forms part of the Benjamin Franklin Collection., Title from caption below image., and Publication date is from printmaker's active dates.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780
Half-length portrait, oval in rectangular frame, of Bishop Nicolas Coeffeteau, in ecclesiastical robes and crucifix around his neck; coat of arms at the base
Alternative Title:
Nicolas Coeffeteau evesque de Dardanie et nommé a l'evêché de Marseille
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Place and date of publication based on printmaker's place of activity and his death date.
"Portrait of Philippe de Champaigne, after the painter's self-portrait; half-length, turned to the right, with left hand on chest and right hand holding a parchment inscribed with the date '1668'; landscape and view of Brussels in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Place of publication based on printmaker's known place of activity. See Bénézit.
"Portrait of Anne Hyde, first wife of James II, half length, head directed to right but looking at viewer; wearing pearls in her hair, around her neck and looped onto her dress."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Portrait of Anne Hyde, Duchess of York
Description:
Title from French verses etched below image., A copy by Mary Beale of the original painting by Lely was kept by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 112 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
York, Anne Hyde, Duchess of, 1637-1671, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin performing his famous experiment of June 1752 in which he attached a key to a kite and flew it in a thunderstorm in order to prove that lightning was electricity. Almost allegorical in presentation, Franklin is shown seated on clouds with cherub-like figures assisting him on the right in the backgroun, his red cape blowing in the wind against a stormy sky
Description:
Date and title taken from impression at the Philadelphia Museum of Art., Based on the Benjamiin West oil painting now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art., and Embossed letters at lower left corner: Cercle Librairie estampes encircling initials RTN.