Panidochème ou toutes sortes de voitures: Caisson de la garde royale, No. 10 (after Victor Adam)
Charles Etienne Motte (1785-1836)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1810 - 1836
Materials
Paper
Measurements
271 x 350 mm
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206168
Summary
Lithograph, Panidochème ou toutes sortes de voitures: Caisson de la garde royale, No. 10 (after Victor Adam) by Charles Etienne Motte (1785-1836). Carriage drawing. Coloured engraving. One of a set of 12 prints of French travel scenes, Caisson de la Garde Royale, Voitures 10. Designed by V. Adam, Lith de Ch Motte, Chez Ch. Motte imp Editeur a Paris. Embossed C. Motte Lithographe a Paris. Stuck on card. Wagon of military guard. A procession of royal guards on horseback, in front of a large box, at a roadside; beyond at left, houses and a wooden cross; at far right, soldiers glimpsed in clouds of smoke; a mountain lined with trees seen in the distance; in the immediate foreground, the base of a tree trunk, a corpse (?) and an abandoned wheel.
Provenance
Part of the Bambridge Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1976 by Mrs Elsie Bambridge (1896-1976)
Makers and roles
Charles Etienne Motte (1785-1836), engraver (printmaker) after Victor Adam (Paris 1801 - Viroflay 1866), artist