1597363271000 1597313575000 Standard Record object-241898 1747159789710 1632746022000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-241898 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/241898 b3c78cf8-8296-3c8a-bc4d-5d10008a8377 5 reference term-97946 adlib-term-97946 388f10ba-526c-32ab-869a-65750eb7faac drawing reference term-106206 adlib-term-106206 da969d02-66a2-3e51-8dde-d1d8613f2ff6 paper Support Height mm 180 Width mm 130 Sheet reference term-98112 adlib-term-98112 32d115a4-d3ac-33b0-b126-2a3da0fdf139 portrait Paintings, Drawings and Prints 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. PD.5-2020 1 accession number PD.5-2020 241898 priref 241898 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/241898 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/241898 Underlined lower centre pen and ink Gibbon. inscription reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Bequeathed by John Vaughan Hart, 2020 reference agent-201318 adlib-agent-201318 49e347bd-3bd0-3a14-9be5-5597b09db35c Hart, John Vaughan 2020 2020 2020 bequeathed 1786 1786 1786 circa 1786 1789 late 1780s 1 1789 1789 circa 1789 reference agent-6762 adlib-agent-6762 6c198779-a3b7-30b5-9218-0fec8256b64e Brandoin, Michel Vincent Made during Gibbon's last stay in Lausanne reference term-106400 adlib-term-106400 3e80c102-1483-3c39-b2f4-67e333d653d8 18th Century reference term-106211 adlib-term-106211 a643b236-c3c1-3854-ba79-8c4da8aa6dfc watercolour reference term-31041 adlib-term-31041 777e9d03-48c7-3aba-a563-03dee309fe95 graphite reference term-97946 adlib-term-97946 388f10ba-526c-32ab-869a-65750eb7faac drawing history note 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 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 19-32 reference publication-400002215 adlib-publication-400002215 85f7b059-a67f-3b23-8cac-e297289f1925 'Brandoin and Gibbon in Lausanne, c. 1787, A drawing rediscovered and a letter explained', British Art Journal

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