A view of the Place des Victories [sic] at Paris [graphic]

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Title: A view of the Place des Victories [sic] at Paris [graphic]
Alternative Title: View of the Place des Victories at Paris
View of the Place des Victoires at Paris
Creator: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: May 1, 1772.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by MDarly, Strand
Description: Title from caption below image.
T. Scratchley is the pseudonym of Matthias Darly.
Artist identified as Bunbury in the British Museum catalogue.
Third of three known states. See curator's comments in British Museum online cat., registration no.: 1906,0823.2.
Later state with added numbering. Cf. no. 4919 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Plate numbered "4" in upper left corner and "v. 2" in upper right corner.
Temporary local subject terms: Paris: Place des Victoires -- Monument to Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715 -- Beggars -- Shoeblacks -- Paris street scene -- Law and lawyers -- Male costume: Muffs.
Watermark: L.V.G.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. ii; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.3 x 30 cm, on sheet 26 x 32 cm
Edition: [State with pl. no. and v. no.].
Language: French

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1772
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1772
England > London > 1772

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