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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R2817
People
John Young, British (1755 - 1825)
After Jean Laurent Mosnier, French (1743 - 1808)
Title
Jacques Delille
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1802
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/250161

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Mezzotint
Dimensions
sheet: 36 × 25.5 cm (14 3/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left, under image: Peint par J. S. Monnier des academies de Paris et de Londres.
  • inscription: lower right, under image: Gravé par J. Young graveur de S. A. R. Mgr Le Prince de Galles.
  • inscription: lower center, in plate: Jacques Delille / de L'academie française
  • inscription: lower left center, in plate: On connoit pour terme à sa glorie, / Les confins du monde habité;
  • inscription: lower right center, in plate: Mais en mettre un à sa memorie, / C'est borner L'immortalité. / S.t M...
  • inscription: lower left, in plate: Dans les 1.eres epreuves toute / la lettre reste esquiƒseé.
  • inscription: lower right, in plate: Dans les 2.des epreuves les noms du graveur / et du peintre seulement restent esquiƒsés.
  • inscription: lower center, in plate: Le tableau original appartenant à M. de S.t Morys a été peint au moment au M. Delille recitoit ses vers / 1.er Aout. 1802. / Publié a Londres par W. Richardson Villiers Street. Strand. / à Paris par J. Gabriel Dufour libraire rue de tournon / et deposé suivant la loi.
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: BX
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: BB 5734

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Witt Randall, bequest; to Belinda Lull Randall, his sister, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iii/iii
Standard Reference Number
LeBlanc 14; Chaloner Smith 16

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R2817
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2240 18th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/28/2018 - 07/25/2018

Verification Level

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