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Characters in the Plays of Racine (cover page)

Maker

(artist)
1758-1835

(engraver)
ca. 1752-1824 (Life dates)

Title

Characters in the Plays of Racine (cover page)

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 27.9 cm
Width: 22.2 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3367.1

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Literature

Contogouris, Ersy, "Emma Hamilton, a Model of Agency in Late Eighteenth-Century Europe", PhD dissertation, Montréal: Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques, Université de Montréal, 2014.
pp. 116-117

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower centre image & recto : : Outlines of Figures and Drapery collected / with great care from Antient Statues, Monumenst Basreleivos [ampersand]c / Representing the principle Characters in the Plays of Racine, / in their proper Costume forming an Useful study for Amateurs in Drawing, / from the most Correct [ampersand] Chaste Models of Credian [ampersand] Roman Sculpture. //

Inscription: inscription : typed : lower centre margin & recto : later Witt inscription : : F. REHBERG //

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