A couple assemble their false body parts: false teeth, a glass eye and wigs. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly, 1825.

  • Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845.
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1825
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16329i
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1825

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour

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Les époux assortis. Lith de Delpech. L. Boilly 1825.

Notes

'Grimaces' is the title of a series of 92 lithographs designed by Boilly between 1823 and 1828, "reissued by the Maison Aubert in 1837 as 'Groupes physionomiques connus sous le nom de grimaces par Boilly'. 200-300 exemplars of first edition, up to 1000 on a few. Also issued in more limited editions in London." (Judith Wechsler, 'A Human Comedy', Thames and Hudson, London 1982, p. 194)

References note

Henry Harrisse, L.L. Boilly. Paris: Société de propagation de livres d'art, 1898, p. 196ff.
Jean Laran and Jean Adhémar, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome troisième, Paris 1942, pp. 56-57, Louis Boilly no. 8, ("8. Même suite [Recueil de Grimaces, chez Delpech, 1823-1828, 95 pl.]… No. 58 (?) Les époux assortis, 1825 (dentier, oeil artificiel) [H. 1318, avant le no; id., épr. coloriée; réimpr. Aubert avec le no. 98 (rogné)")
William Schupbach, The iconographic collections of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London 1989, pp. 26 and 55

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Wellcome Collection 16329i

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