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- Artist:
- Anonymous
- After:
- Year of creation:
- 1779
- Place of creation:
- Object type:
- sculpture
- Materials:
- black basalt
- Dimensions:
- 4.9 cm (diameter)
- Current location:
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Collection ID number:
- WE.6098-2014
- Collection link:
- https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1414400/portrait-medallion/
- Inscriptions:
- [on the obverse] VOLTAIRE NÉ LE XX FEVRIER MDCXCIV / G. C. WAECH / TER F.
- [on the reverse] TIRÉ / D'APRES NATURE AU CHATEAU / DE FERNEY / G. C. WÆCHTER / GRAVÉ MDCCLXX
- Keywords:
- wig, long wig, cravat, jabot, justacorps, profile, smile, drapery, toothless, flowers, laurels, wreath, crown, caduceus, book, trumpet, music score, lyre, globe, masks, tragedy, comedy, Thalia, Melpomene, altar, light, beams
- People represented:
- Bibliography:
- Wedgwood portraits and the American Revolution [exh. cat. 13 July – 31 October 1976, National Portrait Gallery, Washington], Washington: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1976, pp. 40, 42.
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- [another copy] Victoria and Albert Museum, London, WE.5873-2014
- [another copy] Victoria and Albert Museum, London, WE.5874-2014
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