Abelard présent L'Hymen à Eloise qui le Refuse / Abelard Offering Hymen to Eloisa

Multiple artists/makers

ca. 1780

Not on view

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Title: Abelard présent L'Hymen à Eloise qui le Refuse / Abelard Offering Hymen to Eloisa
Engraver: John Ogborne (British, Chelmsford, Essex 1755–1837 London)
Engraver: Louis Alexandre Boutelou (French, born 1761, active until 1790)
Artist: After Angelica Kauffmann (Swiss, Chur 1741–1807 Rome)
Publisher: Elisabeth Challiou (French, active 1780)
Date: ca. 1780
Medium: Stipple engraving and etching
Dimensions: Plate: 15 × 13 in. (38.1 × 33 cm)
Sheet: 17 1/2 × 14 1/2 in. (44.5 × 36.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gertrude and Thomas J. Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942
Object Number: 42.119.91
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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