[Les chats angola de Madame la Marquise du Deffand] [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- [Les chats angola de Madame la Marquise du Deffand] [graphic]
- Alternative Title
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Madame du Deffand's cats
S'ils ont griffes et dents, ils en font bon usage ... - Creator
- Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created
- [1746]
- Publication Place
- France
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
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View of Madame du Deffand's room and two cats, with one cat standing on an armchair at center and the other on the floor. The two animals face one another in apparent aggression, both having one paw raised and tail extended and fluffed. A fireplace is seen at right, behind which are a small bureau and wall-mounted bookshelf. In the center background is a window; part of a bed or sofa is visible behind a curtain in the left background
- Description
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Title from Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Ch. Nic. Cochin fils; alternative title devised by curator.
Designed and engraved in 1746 by Charles Nicolas Cochin; see Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Ch. Nic. Cochin fils.
Verses by the president Hénault etched below image: S'ils ont griffes et dents, ils en font bon usage, On leur imputte à tort et ruse et trahison; Ils sont gays, caressans: la grace est leur partage, Qui les craints, s'en repent: qui s'y fie à raison.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 64 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
For further information, consult library staff. - Provenance
- Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 12.1 x 15 cm
- Language
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French
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
- Etchings France 1746
- Material
- etching with engraving ;
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780
Hénault, Charles-Jean-François, 1685-1770. - Subject (Topic)
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Homes and haunts
Interiors
Cats
Furniture
Fireplaces - Subjects
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Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780 > Homes and haunts
Hénault, Charles-Jean-François, 1685-1770
Interiors
Cats
Furniture
Fireplaces
France > 1746
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13444699
- Object ID (OID)
- 16729670
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