From the description of the Breakfast Room in the 1784 edition of Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole: "Madame la marquise de Deffand and the duchesse de Choiseul giving her a doll, which the former, who was blind, holds out her hand to receive; alluding to her calling the ducess Grand Mamam ...by M. Carmontel, a gentleman belonging to the Duke of Orleans .. a washed drawing." See p. 26.
Description:
Title from ms. note in ink below image., After the Carmontelle watercolor that hung in the Breakfast room at Strawberry Hill and sold at the Strawberry Hill sale eleventh day, lot 111., and Date based on the correspondence between Walpole and Du Deffand. See Yale edition of the correspondence, vol. 4.
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780, and Choiseul, Louise Honorine Crozat, duchesse de, 1734-1801,
A broadside calendar with, at the top, a portrait of six Osage Indians from the U.S. who visited France in 1827. The portrait of the Indians forms the upper third of the sheet. The figures are shown from the waist up and each is numbered; four men and two women are depicted. A column on the left side of the calendar, "Notice sur les Osages," lists their names as well as information about them and their journey to France. The middle six columns, which are divided in half horizontally, contain the calendar. The column on the right, "La giraffe: envoyee a S.M. Charles X, par le pacha d’Egypte," has an illustration of a giraffe and describes the one given to Charles X and its journey to France.
Publisher:
Chez Lecrene-Labbey, imprimeur-libraire, Grande-rue, n 160, ou l’on trouve un assortiment general d’almanachs, livres d’ecoles, Bibliotheque bleue et images
Subject (Name):
Osage Indians --Portraits and Osage Indians --Travel --France
