Skip to main content

Monsr De Voltaire: P.14228-R

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Monsr De Voltaire
Portrait of Voltaire, 1694-1778

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Purcell, Richard
Painter: Sen, L. (After)

Entities

Categories

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay in 1912

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley

Dating

19th Century
Circa 1746 - Circa 1766

Note

Inscription on bottom "L Sen, delint." and "C. Corbutt fect.".

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Mezzotint

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14228-R
Primary reference Number: 206313
Chaloner Smith: 73
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Thursday 13 August 2015 Updated: Monday 19 November 2018 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Monsr De Voltaire" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/206313 Accessed: 2024-04-20 01:28:17

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/206313 |title=Monsr De Voltaire |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-04-20 01:28:17|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-206313

More objects and works of art you might like

Suggested products from Curating Cambridge

You might be interested in this...

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...