Identification title(s): farewell between a spartan woman and her son. Object type: print object number: rp-p-2007-724. Catalog reference: iff 18e siècle 143-2. Inscriptions / marks: collector's mark, verso, stamped: lugt 2228 collector's mark, verso, stamped: lugt 2760. Description: in the center is the son with helmet and dagger, behind him a winged genus with torch and trumpet. To his left sits his mother who hands him a shield. On the far left a woman with a girl and on the far right a seated old man. Below the image the title. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker:
pierre-michel alix (1762–1817)
(mentioned on object), after a drawing by: jean guillaume moitte (mentioned on object), after a design by: jean guillaume moitte (mentioned on object), publisher: marie françois drouhinplace of manufacture: printmaker: france, publisher: paris. Date: 1795. Physical features: engraving, stipple engraving, etching, roulette and aquatint with separately printed frame in blue. Material: paper technique: engraving (printing process) / stipple engraving / roulette / etching / aquatint. Dimensions: top: h 320 mm (cut off inside sheet edge. ) × w 575 mm (cut off inside sheet edge. ). Subjectwhat: (story of) the women of spartataking leave. Acquisition and rights: credit line: purchase from the f. G. Waller fund. Acquisition: purchase 2007. Date: 1795.
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