Five antiquaries look through magnifying glasses at objects. Coloured lithograph after L. Boilly, 1823.

Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845.

Date:: 1823

Reference:: 16324i

Part of:: Grimaces

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Five antiquaries look through magnifying glasses at objects. Coloured lithograph after L. Boilly, 1823. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : E. & C. McLean

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 26.3 x 22.4 cm.

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Grimaces

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Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845.

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The antiquaries

References note

Not found in: Étienne Bréton and Pascal Zuber, Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1761-1845: le peintre de la société parisienne de Louis XVI à Louis-Philippe, Paris: Arthena, 2019 (but English publications of Boilly's Grimaces mentioned in vol. I, p. 309)

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Wellcome Collection 16324i

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)