Johann Georg Wille and Marie Louis Adelaide Boizot
Charlemagne
1737
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 148 x 109 mm. (5 13/16 x 4 5/16 in.)
Image: 139 x 98 mm. (5 1/2 x 3 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.3728
Profile portrait of king wearing crown.
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (lugt supp. 555c).
Signed: 1
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower left, in plate "Boizot del"; in image, lower center, in plate "Charlemagne / XXIIIe Roy de France / et Empereur [...]"; in image, lower right, in plate "J.G. Will Sculp."; below image, lower right, in graphite "2d state" Verso: lower left in graphite "94"
Markings: CM: Claghorn, Garrett
