Le compteur [graphic]

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Title: Le compteur [graphic]
Creator: Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790, printmaker
Contributor: Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721, artist.
Chéreau, François, 1680-1729, publisher.
Published / Created: [not after 1729]
Publication Place: À Paris
Publisher: Chez F. Chereau graveur du Roy ruë St. Jacques aux deux pilliers d'Or
Description: Title etched below image.
Engraved after a painting by Watteau, with attribution etched in both Latin and French below title: Scalptus juxtà exemplar à Watteavo pictum ... ; Gravé d'apres le tableau original peint par Watteau ...
Date of publication based on publisher's death date.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 81 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.
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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 30.6 x 22.4 cm
Language: French
Latin

Genre: Reproductions
Engravings France Paris 1729
Etchings France Paris 1729
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: France > Paris > 1729
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

Access: Public
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