An allegorical female figure assisting victims of the 1720 plague in Marseille. Etching by C.V. Normand (Normand the elder), 1856, after F.P.S. Gérard, 1834.

  • Gérard, François, 1770-1837.
Date:
1856
Reference:
10086i
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Publication/Creation

1856

Physical description

1 print : etching ; image 13.8 x 10.2 cm

Contributors

Lettering

F. Gérard pinx 1834 ; Normand ainé sc 1856

References note

Bibliographie de la France, 7 juin 1856, no. 1206 ("La peste de Marseille ... 12 pl. gravées à l'eau-forte, par C. V. Normand, Ch. Bazin, Ed. Rosette, Carrey, d'après F. Gérard. (Oeuvre de François Gérard)"--Image of France database no. 59144
Raymond Crawfurd, Plague and pestilence in literature and art, Oxford 1914, pp. 200-211

Reference

Wellcome Collection 10086i

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