The main thoroughfare of Marseille during the plague of 1720. Coloured etching after M. Serre.

  • Serre, Michel, 1658-1733.
Date:
[between 1700 and 1799]
Reference:
10081i
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Description

See further: Raymond Crawfurd, Plague and pestilence in literature and art, Oxford 1914, pp. 200-211

Publication/Creation

Paris (rue St. Jacques au dessus de la Fontaine St. Séverin aux 2 Colonnes, no. 257.) : Jacques[-Simon] Chéreau, [between 1700 and 1799]

Physical description

1 print : etching, with watercolour (partly oxidised) and gum arabic ; platemark 24.3 x 43.3 cm

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Lettering

Cours de Marseille. La peste de Marseille vüe du côté du cours dessiné sur le lieu en 1720. "Cours de Marseille" in the lettering is reversed to be read in a mirror

Reference

Wellcome Collection 10081i

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