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Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.
- Lecomte, Hippolyte, 1781-1857
- Date:
- 1820
- Reference:
- 24451i
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Credit: Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
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Description
Presumably an episode in the Napoleonic Wars, of which Lecomte made many depictions. In the background is a large city
Publication/Creation
[Paris] (Paris (rue Louis le Grand no. 27) : Lith. de G. Engelmann)
Physical description
1 print : lithograph, with watercolour
Lettering
Blessés étrangers secourus par des militaires Français. Hte Lecomte 1820. Lith. de G. Engelmann, rue Louis le Grand no. 27 à Paris
References note
Bibliographie de la France, 3 juin 1820, no. 391 ("Blessés étrangers secourus par des militaires français, lith. par H. Lecomte. A Paris, chez Engelmann") -- Image of France database no. 11002
Jacques Lethève, Françoise Gardey, and Jean Adhémar, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome XIII, Paris 1965, p. 227, no. 16
Reference
Wellcome Collection 24451i
Type/Technique
Languages
- French
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