Fontenelle, in or after 1796

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Medium

engraving on laid paper [final state]

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 27.9 x 20.7 cm (11 x 8 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John O'Brien

Accession Number

1986.88.10

Artists / Makers

Pierre Gabriel Langlois (artist) French, 1754 - c. 1810

Jean-Jacques Forty (artist after) French, 1743 - 1800

Guillaume Voiriot (artist after) French, 1713 - 1799

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate in frame: FONTENELLE.; lower left in plate below frame: Peint par Voiriot; lower center in plate below frame: Dessine par Forty.; lower right in plate: et Grave par P.G. Langlois