Atala receiving her last communion from the missionary Père Aubry, while her dog and Chactas are crouching at the end of her camp in a mountain cave. Stipple print with etching by Fortier and J.P. Simon after Jean Baptiste Mallet.

  • Mallet, Jean-Baptiste, 1759-1835.
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[1812]
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46811i
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Atala receiving her last communion from the missionary Père Aubry, while her dog and Chactas are crouching at the end of her camp in a mountain cave. Stipple print with etching by Fortier and J.P. Simon after Jean Baptiste Mallet. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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An episode in Atala by François-René de Chateaubriand, 1801

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Paris (14 Rue de la Verrerie) : Osterwald, [1812]

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1 print : stipple engraving, with etching ; image 31.4 x 39.5 cm

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La communion d'Atala ... Mallet pinxit. Fortier aquaforte. J.P. Simon sculpsit Lettering continues underneath the print

References note

Bibliographie de la France, 15 février 1812, no. 273 ("Le père Aubry, Chactas et Atala, gravés par Simon. [A Paris, chez Osterwald]") –Image of France database no. 2672

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Wellcome Collection 46811i

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