2010.596: Chinese Arabesque with Tightrope Walker

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2010.596

People

Anne Allen, British (1749/50 - after 1808(?))
After Jean Baptiste Pillement, French (Lyon 1728 - 1808 Lyon)

Title

Chinese Arabesque with Tightrope Walker

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: Nouvelle Suite de Cahiers Arabesque Chinois

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

c. 1795

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/337130

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Color etching printed à la poupée in black, gray, blue, green, brown, pink and olive green on cream antique laid paper

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

Plate: 19.5 × 14 cm (7 11/16 × 5 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 21 × 15.3 cm (8 1/4 × 6 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: l.r. etched in plate: Anne allen S.
• inscription: l.l. etched in plate: F. Pillement in.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

IFF, vol. I, no. 3 p. 153

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints

Accession Year

2010

Object Number

2010.596

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art/Lund Humphries Publishers (Washington, D.C., 2003), p. 150-151, cat. no. 89 [not Harvard impression]

Exhibition History

• 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/19/2015 - 05/05/2016; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/16/2024 - 01/27/2025

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