Les chats [graphic]

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Title: Les chats [graphic]
Alternative Title: Alternative form of title
Creator: Otten, T., active 1720, printmaker
Contributor: Coypel, Charles-Antoine, 1694-1752, artist.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, attributed name.
Published / Created: [1791?]
Publication Place: Paris
Publisher: Maradan?
Description: Title from curator.
Place of publication based on printmaker's known place of residence and dates active.
Plate from: Histoire des chats. A Paris : Chez Maradan ...,1791.
"Pag. 117".--Upper right corner.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Ms. note in Steevens's hand above print: From a French Book entitled -- Histoire des Chats. Below print: See the following leaf.
On page 48 in volume 1.
Provenance: George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 14.4 x 16.3 cm
Language: French

Genre: Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Satires (Visual works) France 1791
Engravings France Paris 1791
Material: engraving ;
Subject (Topic): Animals in human situations
Cats
Subjects: Animals in human situations
Cats
18th century
France > 1791
France > Paris > 1791
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

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