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A View of the Place des Victories at Paris   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Henry William Bunbury

Print made by: Matthew Darly
Title
A View of the Place des Victories at Paris
Description
English: Publication line cut off. Perhaps belongs to the same series as BMSat 4918, which it closely resembles. A street scene, the curving line of the houses of the 'Place des Victoires' with the monument to Louis XIV forming the background. The central figure is a coachman, dressed as in BMSat 4763, his hands in a large muff; he stands talking to a peasant woman. A lawyer, an umbrella under his arm, is having his shoes cleaned by a 'décrotteur' on the extreme left, the sign, resembling that in BMSat 4679, is inscribed, "A La Dauphine St Louis Décrotevé" [sic]; from it a shoe-brush angles. The lawyer ignores a one-legged beggar holding out his hat. The dog-barber is not present, but a newly-shaved dog sits behind the coachman. On the extreme right walks a hairdresser, his hands in a large muff; he looks over his shoulder at a girl carrying a basket. In the background are coaches, a mounted soldier, a gendarme, pedestrians, another 'décrotteur' plying his trade. c.1771
Etching
Date 1771
date QS:P571,+1771-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 231 millimetres
Width: 292 millimetres (trimmed)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
1906,0823.2
Notes

(Note from Tim Clayton) There are three known states:

I With the engraved inscriptio'n Brandoin Invt. T. Scratchley Sc. A VIEW OF THE PLACE DES VICTORIES AT PARIS Pubd. as the Act Directs by Wm. Darling Engraver in Great Newport Street, and Ino. Roberts Engraver in Hungerford Street Strand, July 29: 1771.' (PML)

II With a string added to the end of the coachman's whip, the designer's name altered to 'B- Invt.' and the new publication line 'Pub by MDarly Strand May 1 1772' (BM)

III With the number IV added top left and the number V.2 top right; issued in this state in some copies of Darly's Comic-Prints, 1776 (BM; Bodl, Darly 1776, I, p. 57; LWL)

'Charles Brandoin' (Michel Vincent Brandouin 1733-90) is named as the designer of the print in state I, but most of the figures are undoubtedly Bunbury's and Brandoin's name is erased in state II published by Darly. The identical figures of the coachman, the lawyer, and the hairdresser appear in View on the Pont Neuf at Paris (no. 37) published 1 Oct. 1771 by Darly, in which Bunbury is named as the designer.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1906-0823-2
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