M26273.62: The Fish and the Fireworks
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M26273.62
- People
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Claude Gillot, French (Langres 1673 - 1722 Paris)
- Title
- The Fish and the Fireworks
- Other Titles
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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
- 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
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- 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
- Permissions
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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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