Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Grand-Prieur de France ensuite Grand Maître de l'Orde de St. Jean de Jérusalem, établi d'abord à Rhodes, puis à Malthe; né en 1464; mort à Malthe en 1534 / [graphic]

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Lewis Walpole Library > Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Grand-Prieur de France ensuite Grand Maître de l'Orde de St. Jean de Jérusalem, établi d'abord à Rhodes, puis à Malthe; né en 1464; mort à Malthe en 1534 / [graphic]


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Title
Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Grand-Prieur de France ensuite Grand Maître de l'Orde de St. Jean de Jérusalem, établi d'abord à Rhodes, puis à Malthe; né en 1464; mort à Malthe en 1534 / [graphic]
Creator
Sergent-Marceau, Marie Louise, 1753-1804, printmaker
Contributor
Sergent-Marceau, Antoine François, 1751-1847, artist.
Blin, Pierre (Printer), publisher.
Published / Created
1792.
Publication Place
A Paris
Publisher
Chez Blin, Place Maubert, No. 17, A.P.D.R.
Abstract

"Portrait of Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, bust directed to left, looking to front, with brown hair and beard, and black robe emblazoned with a white Malta cross; within oval."--British Museum online catalogue

"From 'Portraits des grands hommes, femmes illustres et sujets mémorables de France', a series of colour prints executed by Antoine Sergent, Marie Louise Cernel, Louis Le Coeur, Jean Baptiste Morret, Ridé and L. Roger, and published in Paris by Pierre Blin in 1786-1792. The series consists of a frontispiece, a lettered dedication to the King, ninety-two portraits and ninety-two figurative scenes in relation to the portraits (historical events, allegories, reproduction of a painting in the case of Poussin...). It was advertised in the Mercure de France, November 1786, p. 44, as 'Portraits des Grands Hommes', to be published monthly as four prints per livraison (two portraits, two actions) at eight livres per livraison."--British Museum online catalogue, curator's comments

Description
Title etched below image.
Year of publication etched beneath lower border of oval portrait, centered between artist and printmaker signatures.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and plate cut in half, with image separated from title and imprint statement lost. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1869,0612.202.
Printed with several plates; see British Museum online catalogue.
Letter "K" etched in upper left corner; "No. 9" etched in upper right corner.
Image mounted on page 137 and text (lacking imprint statement) mounted on page 148 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 : oval sheet 15.4 x 14 cm and rectangular sheet 5.5 x 16 cm
Language
French

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Portraits
Portrait prints
Aquatints France Paris 1792
Material
color aquatint in black and red ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Philippe, 1464-1534
Subjects
Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Philippe, 1464-1534 > Portraits
France > Paris > 1792
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13504149
Object ID (OID)
16729731

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