L'Huître Les Fables de La Motte
Printmaker: Gillot, Claude
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount
18th Century
Production date:
AD 1719
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). Unfinished state: see 24.K.12-240 for a later state.
Accession number: 24.K.12-239
Primary reference Number: 181949
Populus (Gillot): 55 I/II
BN Inventaire (18thC): 55
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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