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Enterrement de Marie Reine D'Ecosse.

Maker

(artist)
1742-1810

(draughtsman)
b. ca. 1780 (Life dates)

Title

Enterrement de Marie Reine D'Ecosse.

Date of Production

1794

Medium

stipple engraving

Dimensions

Height: 20.2 cm
Width: 24.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.5462.8

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords











Provenance

previous owner: Witt, Robert Clermont (Sir)

Inscriptions

Inscription: recto: upper right corner, plate number : no. 8.

Inscription: recto: lower left, artist: J. F. Rigaud R.A. Pinx.

Inscription: recto: lower left, engraver : Anto. Zecchin Sculpt.

Inscription: recto: lower centre, title, description: ENTERREMENT DE MARIE REINE D'ECOSSE. / Le corps de Maria fut recu avec beaucoup de respect par l'eveque de Petersbourough, et le Doyen / du Chapitre et a la presence des Ecossois qui assistient aux funerailles; on l'enterra dans une voute, qu' on / avait preparee a cet objet. L'eveque de Lincoln recita un Sermon et des prieres.

Stamp: recto: stamped in black, centre left: WITT / LIBRARY.

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