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Description: | RU, unmounted s. on plate b. l. "F. Boucher invenit et delin."; s. on plate b. r. "L. Surugue Sculpsit"; inscr on plate b."Mac . S"; inscr on plate in memorial "GUILLELMI III / LIBERTATIS ANGLICAE / VINDICIS / MEMORIAE IMMORTALI."; inscr in plate on grave "IV. Novembre / M. DC. LXXXVIII. / Avenement / joyeux / &c." CRE SURUGUE, Louis; (French; 1686-1762) AFTER BOUCHER, Francois; (French; 1703-1770) LABEL: "This print was part of a series titled "Tombeaux de Princes " commissioned by the Irish opera impresario Owen McSwiney in 1735. Designed as a tribute to the heroes of the Whig party, its execution was entrusted to Nicolas Dorigny (1658-1746), a French engraver who had worked in London from 1711 to 1724 and had been asked by 'les anglais' to employ the best French painters. Boucher, then an up and coming artist, was one of the three artists selected for the task." | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | UNICORN : WEAPON : HELMET : ALLEGORY : ROCOCO : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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