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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2017.243
People
Isidore Stanislas Helman, French (Lille, France 1743 - c. 1806 Paris, France)
After Nicolas Lavreince, Swedish (Stockholm, Sweden 1737 - 1807 Stockholm, Sweden)
Title
The Dangerous Novel
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Le Roman Dangereux
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1781
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/359942

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving and etching on cream antique laid paper
Technique
Engraving and etching
Dimensions
image: 43.3 × 31.5 cm (17 1/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
sheet: 44.1 × 32.6 cm (17 3/8 × 12 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, lower right: Gravé en 1781 par Helman Graveur de M. gr le Duc de Chartres
  • inscription: in plate, lower right: Peint a Gouasse par N. Lavrience Peintre du Roi de Suede
  • inscription: in plate, lower center: à Paris chés l'Auteur, rue St. Honoré vis-à-vis l'Hotel de Noailles.
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: Pg [?]
  • inscription: in plate, lower center, under image: LE ROMAN DANGEREUX / Dédié à Son exee Le Prince Michelde Scherbatowo / Senateur, Conseiller privé, Chambellan actuelle de S.M. l'Imp. de toutes les Russies Président de la / Chambre des Finances et chev.er de l'Ordre de Ste Anne / par son très humble et très / obéssant serviteur [illegible]
  • watermark: center of print: [unidentified]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Unidentified Auction, London], sold; to [Jan Johnson Prints, Chambly, Quebec], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2017

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/ii
Standard Reference Number
Lawrence and Dighton 77; IFF, vol. XI, cat. no. 47, p. 278

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund
Accession Year
2017
Object Number
2017.243
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edouard Kopp, Elizabeth M. Rudy, and Kristel Smentek, ed., Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), pp. 276-276, repr. p. 275 as fig. 2

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