IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 241898 accession number: PD.5-2020 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 13 August 2020 updated: Monday 27 September 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Portrait of Edward Gibbon (1737-1794); full length, holding walking stick, wearing queue wig and frock coat; seated in a garden in Lausanne with mountains behind. Gibbon was a British historian and Member of Parliament. His most well-known work was 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. title: drawing NOTES ----- type: history note value: Gibbon's librarian, the Swiss theologian Jean-David-Paul-Étienne Lavade (d.1834); 'Mons. Greathed No. 9 Boulevard du roe 3 mai 1822' (graphite inscription on the verso of the drawing), possibly Edward Harris Greathed (1770-1840) of Udden House, near Wimborne, Dorset, residing latterly in Versailles and Switzerland LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Bequeathed by John Vaughan Hart, 2020 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/241898 TECHNIQUES ---------- Graphite with watercolour on paper drawing CATEGORIES ------ category: drawing DATING ------ creation date: 1786 - 1789 creation date earliest: 1786 creation date latest: 1789 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Brandoin, Michel Vincent CITATIONS -------- 'Brandoin and Gibbon in Lausanne, c. 1787, A drawing rediscovered and a letter explained', British Art Journal ---