Madame de Sévigné - Original Hand-Colored Hargrave Engraving - 1836
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Full-length portrait of the Marquise de Sévigné (1626-1696), engraved by Edmund Hargrave and hand-colored at the time. It was published in London in 1836, in The Lady's Magazine and Museum, as number 37 of its series of ancient portraits.
Full-length portrait of the Marquise de Sévigné (1626-1696), engraved by Edmund Hargrave and hand-colored at the time. It was published in London in 1836, in The Lady's Magazine and Museum, as number 37 of its series of ancient portraits.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné, is the great French letter writer of the 17th century: her letters to her daughter are a classic of French literature. She appears here dressed in black and holding a letter, and the engraving carries the engraved signature «Ed. Hargrave sculp.t».
Medium: Hand-colored steel engraving.
Engraver: Edmund Hargrave.
Date: London, 1836.
Source: The Lady's Magazine and Museum, vol. IX, no. 37 of the series of ancient portraits; publishers Dobbs and Page, 112 Fetter Lane, London.
Dimensions: 6.1 x 10.0 in (15.4 x 25.4 cm).
Condition: Foxing spread over the whole sheet, denser in the margins; the coloring well preserved.
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Full-length portrait of the Marquise de Sévigné (1626-1696), engraved by Edmund Hargrave and hand-colored at the time. It was published in London in 1836, in The Lady's Magazine and Museum, as number 37 of its series of ancient portraits.