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Artist:
Year of creation:
1794
Place of creation:
Object type:
print
Materials:
stipple engraving
Dimensions:
10 x 15.2 cm
Current location:
British Museum, London
Collection ID number:
18650520.173999999
Collection link:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1865-0520-174
Inscriptions:
  • [above the portrait] European Magazine
  • [below the portrait] Engraved by Condee. / VOLTAIRE. / Published by J. Sewell, Cornhill, June, 1, 1794.
Keywords:
profile, wig, long wig, cravat, toga, drapery
People represented:
Bibliography:
  • Jennifer Montagu, “Inventaire des tableaux, sculptures, estampes, etc. de l'Institut et musée Voltaire”, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 20 (1962), pp. 223-247, here p. 231.
Related:
  • [as a plate in the European Magazine 25 (May 1794)] New York Public Library, New York, *DA (European Magazine and London Review) v. 25 (Jan. - June 1794)
  • [another impression] Les Délices, Geneva, imv ic 0093
  • [another impression] Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, UP V 6
  • [another impression] Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, FP IV 104.2
  • [another impression] Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, WAHP83166
  • [another impression] New York Public Library, New York, 5203340
  • [another impression] New York Public Library, New York, 5203341