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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M26273.62
People
Claude Gillot, French (Langres 1673 - 1722 Paris)
Title
The Fish and the Fireworks
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Fables Nouvelles, by Antoine Houdar de la Motte, 1719
Original Language Title: Les Poissons & le Feu d'Artifice; Livre Cinquiesme, Fable Seiziesme
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1719
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/51267

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching with letterpress title (cut from book)
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 8.2 x 10.2 cm (3 1/4 x 4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Gillot . Inu . & Sculp
  • inscription: plate margin, lower left, black ink, etching, signed, in artist's hand: signature: Gillot . Inu . & Sculp

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Pauline Lincoln
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
M26273.62
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Perrin Stein, Artists and Amateurs: Etching in 18th-century France, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2013), cat. 34, p. 62 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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