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Public Promenade (La Promenade Publique)
Philibert-Louis Debucourt1792
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: Public Promenade (La Promenade Publique)
- Creator: Philibert Louis Debucourt
- Date Created: 1792
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in image, lower right: monogram “DB. 92”; inscribed below image, lower left: “Dessiné & Gravé par Debucourt Peintre & Graveur”
- Print State: Fourth of four states
- Object Type: Prints, works of art
- Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
- Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Friends of the Davison Art Center funds and Weedon Endowment funds in honor of Ellen G. D’Oench (B.A. Wesleyan 1973, Trustee 1977–1979, DAC Curator 1979–1998) on the occasion of her twentieth reunion, 1993
- Materials & Techniques: Etching, engraving, and aquatint from four plates printed in pink, blue, ochre, and black ink on heavy wove paper
- Keywords: caricatures, color intaglio, political caricature, politics, social caricature, social commentary
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Edition: Published by Depeuille, 52 rue Denis, Paris
- Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 485 mm x 645 mm (19.09 in. x 25.39 in.). Sheet dimensions: 586 mm x 786 mm (23.07 in. x 30.94 in.).
- Bibliography: Fenaille (1899) 35 iii/iii; Widener National Gallery of Art iv/iv; Carlson and Ittmann 103 (reproduced on cover and p. 291), with identities of two figures; Edmond and Jules de Goncourt (1873–74 ed.), vol. 2, pp. 242–46, with identity of one figure
- Associated People: Created by Philibert Louis Debucourt (French, 1755-1832)
- Accession Number: 1993.16.1
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