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Walter Scott Image Collection
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Walter Scott Image Collection
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Work Record ID:
0030129
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Shelfmark:
Corson P.7130
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Corson P.7130
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Title:
Buffon: From an Original Picture by Drouais in the Collection of the Institute of France
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Buffon: From an Original Picture by Drouais in the Collection of the Institute of France
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Steel engraved portrait of Buffon by R. Hart after a picture by Drouais
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Steel engraved portrait of Buffon by R. Hart after a picture by Drouais
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Creator:
Drouais, François Hubert
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Drouais, François Hubert
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Artist
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Associate Creator:
Hart, Robert
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Hart, Robert
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Associate Creator Role:
Engraver
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Date:
1853
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1853
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Description:
Engraved portrait of the French naturalist Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788). Sir Walter Scott's library at Abbotsford included an edition of Buffon's Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière. Scott drew on it when likening the painter Dick Tinto to a sloth in chapter 1 of The Bride of Lammermoor (1819): 'In short, Dick Tinto's friends feared that he had acted like the animal called the sloth, which, heaving eaten up the last green leaf upon the tree where it has established itself, ends by tumbling down from the top, and dying of inanition.' The original portrait by François Hubert Drouais was painted in 1761.
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Engraved portrait of the French naturalist Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788). Sir Walter Scott's library at Abbotsford included an edition of Buffon's Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière. Scott drew on it when likening the painter Dick Tinto to a sloth in chapter 1 of The Bride of Lammermoor (1819): 'In short, Dick Tinto's friends feared that he had acted like the animal called the sloth, which, heaving eaten up the last green leaf upon the tree where it has established itself, ends by tumbling down from the top, and dying of inanition.' The original portrait by François Hubert Drouais was painted in 1761.
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Work Type:
Engraving
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Engraving
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Measurement:
18.3 x 26.8cm (7 3/16 x 10 9/16")
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18.3 x 26.8cm (7 3/16 x 10 9/16")
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Material:
Ink
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Material:
Paper
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Technique:
Steel Engraving
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Steel Engraving
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Location:
TBC/Main Library/Special Collections
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TBC/Main Library/Special Collections
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Repository:
Corson Collection
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Corson Collection
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Source:
The Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Poets, vol. II. London: Wm. S. Orr & Co., 1853
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The Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Poets, vol. II. London: Wm. S. Orr & Co., 1853
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Subject Person:
Leclerc, George Louis, Comte de Buffon
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Leclerc, George Louis, Comte de Buffon
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Subject Person:
Scott, Walter, Sir
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Scott, Walter, Sir
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Subject Category:
Books and reading
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Subject Category:
Portraits
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Related Work Title:
Bride of Lammermoor, The
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Bride of Lammermoor, The
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Related Work Creator:
Scott, Walter, Sir
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Scott, Walter, Sir
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Repro Capture Date:
23/04/2012 12:10:00
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Repro Rights Statement:
© The University of Edinburgh
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© The University of Edinburgh
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