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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M26273.17
People
Charles Simonneau, French (1645 - 1728)
After Claude Gillot, French (Langres 1673 - 1722 Paris)
Title
The Monkey Sailors
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Fables Nouvelles, by Antoine Houdar de la Motte, 1719
Original Language Title: Les Singes Matelots; Livre II, Fable Sixiesme
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1719
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/51317

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching with letterpress title (cut from book)
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 8.4 x 10 cm (3 5/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Simoneau l'ainé g
  • inscription: plate margin, lower left and right, black ink, etching, signed: attribution of composition, signature: Gillot pinxit Simoneau l'ainé g

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Pauline Lincoln
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
M26273.17
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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