Record

RefNoIM/007225
LevelItem
TitlePortrait of Antoine Lavoisier
ArtistWagstaff, Charles Eden
Datec.1835
DescriptionHead and shoulders portrait showing Kirby looking upwards and towards the right. Detail reproduced from Jacques-Louis David's Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife (1788) now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
InscriptionContent'Engraved by C.E.Wagstaff./LAVOISIER./From the original Picture by David in a Private Collection at Paris./Under the Superintendance of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge./London, Published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street.'
Extent1 item
ObjectNameEngraving
PhysicalDescriptionBlack and white engraving on paper
Dimensions285mm x 195mm (print); 426mm x 286mm (mount)
AccessStatusOpen
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