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Dialogues of the Dead (Dialogues des Morts)

Maker

(artist)
1673-1733

(etcher)
1673-1733

(author)
1657-1757

Title

Dialogues of the Dead (Dialogues des Morts)

Date of Production

1727

Medium

etching and engraving
printed in black

Dimensions

Height: 29.1 cm
Width: 19.1 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.6539.24

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

Inscriptions

Inscription: B. Picart delineavit et fecit 1727. //

Inscription: Fontenelle Illus. 1728 //

Inscription: DIALOGUES DES MORTS. //

Inscription: Ce Lieu represente les Champs Eliseés. les Personnages qu'on i remarque, sont Anacreon, et / Aristote. Alexandre et Phriné. Athenaïs, et Joasie. Homere, et Espose. Didon, et Stratonice. / Platon et Marguer. d'Ecosse. Descartes, et le 3.me faux Demetrius. Fernand Cortez, et Montezume &c. //

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