M. David Hume, 1764

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Medium

engraving on laid paper [first state]

Dimensions

plate: 19.5 x 14.5 cm (7 11/16 x 5 11/16 in.)

sheet: 27.4 x 21.3 cm (10 13/16 x 8 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John O'Brien

Catalogue Raisonné

Portalis/Beraldi 1880, no. 60

Accession Number

1990.56.2

Artists / Makers

Simon Charles Miger (artist) French, 1736 - 1820

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II (artist after) French, 1715 - 1790

Image Use

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Inscription

below image, lower left in plate: Dessine par C.N. Cochin le fils.; below image, lower right in plate: Grave par S.C. Miger en 1764.; across bottom in plate: M. DAVID HUME; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 1er Etat, avant Historien Celebre; by later hand, lCv//in graphite: a

Bibliography

1880: Portalis, baron Roger and Henri Beraldi. Les graveurs du dix-huitieme siecle. 2 parts, 3 vols. each part. Paris, 1880.