Album of Portraits of Queen Marie-Antoinette
volume assembled between 1815 and 1942
Artist
Bookbinder, French, 1772 - 1843
Various Artists
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with 32 late 18th- and early 19th-century prints, six printed on silk, and 2 drawings hinged on wove paper in a repurposed binding, plus a manuscript account of the contents by Edward Clayton
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 50.5 × 36 × 2.5 cm (19 7/8 × 14 3/16 × 1 in.)
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Accession Number
1942.9.1665-1698
Associated Artworks
See all 34 artworksCommemorative Medal on the Occasion of the Marriage of the Dauphin and Marie -Antoinette
Augustin de Saint-Aubin
1770
Death of Louis XV
Louis-Simon Lempereur, Nicolas Delaunay
1774
Un bon prince est aimé jusque dans ses enfans
Marie-Anne Croisier
1790
Artwork history & notes
Inscriptions
in gold-tooled letters on spine of brown leather binding: LES / PIGEONS / PAR / MADAME / KNIP / TEXTE / PARIS / MDCCC XI / SIMIER / RELIEUR / DU ROI; in gold-tooled letters at bottom of front cover: SIMIER.R.DU ROI; inside front endpaper at upper left in graphite: F520 tee; inside back endpaper, at lower right in graphite 497 [written upsidedown]
Markings
Joseph Widener bookplate inside front endpaper
Watermarks
none [on wove paper mounts]