Detail View: Walter Scott Image Collection:
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Work Record ID:
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0030156
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Licence:
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Shelfmark:
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Corson P.7184
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Title:
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Cuvier: From an Original Drawing in the Possession of the Baroness Cuvier, at Paris
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Alternate Title:
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Steel engraved portrait by J. Thomson
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Creator:
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Heim, François-Joseph
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Creator Role:
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Artist
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Associate Creator:
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Thomson, James
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Associate Creator Role:
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Engraver
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Date:
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1853
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Description:
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Engraved portrait of the French naturalist and zoologist Georges, Baron Cuvier (1769-1832). Sir Walter Scott's biographer and son-in-law J. G. Lockhart wrote that the deaths of Goethe, Scott, and Cuvier in 1832 saw Germany, Britain, and France simultaneously mourning over their greatest intellects, an observation made by a number of obituarists. Ralph Waldo Emerson in English Traits also noted erroneously that Scott and Cuvier shared the same date of birth, a mistake frequently repeated by later writers. The original portrait may be a drawing by François-Joseph Heim, now in the Louvre.
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Work Type:
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Engraving
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Measurement:
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18.2 x 26.8cm (7 3/16 x 10 9/16")
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Material:
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Ink
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Material:
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Paper
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Technique:
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Steel Engraving
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Location:
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TBC/Main Library/Special Collections
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Repository:
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Corson Collection
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Source:
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The Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Poets, vol. II. London: Wm. S. Orr & Co., 1853
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Subject Person:
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Cuvier, Georges, Baron
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Subject Person:
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Scott, Walter, Sir
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Subject Category:
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Portraits
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Related Work Title:
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[Portraits]
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Repro File Type:
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Derivative TIFF
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Repro File Size (bytes):
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53301324
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Repro Capture Date:
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24/04/2012 13:23:00
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Repro Rights Statement:
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© The University of Edinburgh
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