Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg
Plate 1 from the series “First Suite of Soldiers”
1754-1770
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Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg
Plate 1 from the series “First Suite of Soldiers”
1754-1770
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 132 x 95 mm. (5 3/16 x 3 3/4 in.)
Plate: 120 x 86 mm. (4 3/4 x 3 3/8 in.)
Image: 109 x 78 mm. (4 5/16 x 3 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.3343
Artists and Amateurs: Etching in Eighteenth-Century France
Inscribed: Recto: in plate, at upper right: "No. 1"; in plate, at lower center: "1ere Suite des Soldats dessinés et gravés par P. J. Loutherbourg / Peintre du Roy / Se vend ches l'Auteur rue du Bacq à côté des Missionaires Etrangers"; Verso: at lower left, in graphite: "1477/9 [in diamond]"; at lower right, in graphite: "Gerstauker [indecipherable]"
Markings: CM: Claghorn
Artist
Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg
1739–1811
French, active in England, 1740-1812
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