Les Singes matelots: 24.K.12-267

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Les Singes matelots
Les Fables de La Motte

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Simonneau, Charles I
Draughtsman: Gillot, Claude (After)

Entities

Print

Categories

Print
Album

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount

Dating

18th Century
Production date: AD 1719

Note

One of 68 plates originally conceived as book-illustatrations for 'Fables Nouvelles Dédiées au Roi par M. De La Motte, de l'Académie Françoise, Avec un Discours sur la Fable' (1719, Dupuis, Paris). This plate appeared on p.83 (Book II). State before the artists' names.

School or Style

Techniques used in production

Engraving
Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: 24.K.12-267
Primary reference Number: 181936
Populus (Gillot): 48 I/II
BN Inventaire (18thC): 48 I/II
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Sunday 7 August 2011

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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