Le Chevalier Michel Descazeaux du Halley, an eccentric. Soft-ground etching.

Date:
20 July 1772
Reference:
254i
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Publication/Creation

[London] (Ludgate Hill) : Published as the Act directs, by T. Wood, 20 July 1772.

Physical description

1 print : soft-ground etching ; platemark 22.1 x 13.2 cm

Lettering

A great man in distress. Il n'ya au monde deux heros le roi de Prusse et le Chevalier Descassau. In all the world, but hero's two I know Prussia's fam'd king & Marquis Descassau. Vide the Chevrs. own poetry.

Notes

This item is on the same mount as record number 253

Reference

Wellcome Collection 254i

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