Volta Devant le Premier Consul

Made:
1820-1830 in Paris
artist:
Josephine Ducollet
publisher:
L. Turgis
maker:
Mes, Francois-Constant
Volta Devant le Premier Consul

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Volta Devant le Premier Consul
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Print. Volta before the First Consul = Volta devant le Premier Consul = Volta delante del Primer Consul / J. Ducollet d'apres Mes. - Paris, L. Turgis Impr. Editeur, r des Ecoles, 60 ... Maison a New York. [ nd. [1828?]. - Lithograph; image 31.5x46.7cm on sheet 41.5x56.5cm. - Titles and texts in French and Spanish, Title in English without expanatory text is added beneath. - [Plate number] 52 [from issue in English?]. - After an oil painting by Mes? - Scene set inside a formal room next to a laboratory, in an Institute [in Paris]. Men, women and children are grouped around a table which is covered to the carpet with a tasselled cloth. Top hat and cape on stool foreground. Napoleon seated to R. Allessandro Volta (1745-1827) standing? demonstrating electro-motive apparatus to the absorbed group. Text commentary is retrospective historical note; this print may be romanticised account issued after death of Volta

Details

Category:
Art
Object Number:
1989-57
Measurements:
overall: 415 x 565 mm
image: 315 mm x 467 mm
type:
print and lithograph
credit:
Grosvenor Prints