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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M26273.20
People
Claude Gillot, French (Langres 1673 - 1722 Paris)
Title
Mercury and the Shades of the Dead
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Fables Nouvelles, by Antoine Houdar de la Motte, 1719
Original Language Title: Mercure & les Ombres; Livre II, Fable Treiziesme
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1719
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/51344

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching with letterpress title (cut from book)
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 8.1 x 10.2 cm (3 3/16 x 4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Gillot Inu & fec.
  • inscription: plate margin, lower left, black ink, etching, signed, in artist's hand: signature: Gillot Inu & fec.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Pauline Lincoln
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
M26273.20
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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