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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2015.164
People
Philibert-Louis Debucourt, French (Paris 1755 - 1832 Paris)
Title
National Almanac, Dedicated to Friends of the Constitution
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Almanach National. Dédié aux Amis de la Constitution
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1791
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/354328

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching with roulette printed in several colors, printed calendar applied
Technique
Etching and roulette
Dimensions
Image: 42.3 × 33.1 cm (16 5/8 × 13 1/16 in.)
Plate: 49 x 36.5 cm (19 5/16 x 14 3/8 in.)
Sheet: 49.6 × 37.3 cm (19 1/2 × 14 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: on attached calendar: ANNÉE 1791. 3e DE LA LIBERTÉ
  • inscription: recto, lower left, in plate: Dessiné et gravé par P.K. de Bucourt de l'Acad. Rle de peinture Ec.
  • inscription: recto, lower center, in plate: Almanach National. / Dédié aux Amis de la Constitution. [long text] / A Paris, chez l'Auteur, Cour du Louvre, la 5.me porte à gauche, en entrant par la Colonade.
  • collector's mark: verso, purple: MLS [Lugt 1889]
  • watermark: dovecote

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mortimer L. Schiff, New York (Lugt 1889), by descent; to John Mortimer Schiff, sold [through Christie's London, June 27, 1938, lot no. 37]. Private Collection, United Kingdom. [C. G. Boerner LLC, New York], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2015.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
IFF, vol. VI, no. 21, pp. 172-173

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2015
Object Number
2015.164
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue of Early English Engravings and French Prints in Mezzotint & Colour Being Part of the Collection formed by the Late Mortimer L. Schiff, Esq., Now Sold by Order of John Mortimer Schiff, Esq., of New York City, U.S.A., auct. cat. (London, June 27, 1938), p. 8, lot 37
  • Claudette Hould, L'Image de la Révolution française, exh. cat., Musée du Québec (Quebec, 1989), pp. 384-386 [not Harvard impression]

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/13/2017 - 02/08/2018

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