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Plate Illustrating "La Prude" (from "Ah , Lili notre futur")
Illustrated by: Hubert François Gravelot (French, 1699–1773)
Engraved by: Joseph de Longueil (French, 1730–1792)
Engraved by: Antoine Jean Duclos (French, 1742–1795)
Engraved by: Isidore Stanislas Helman (French, 1743–1806)
Engraved by: Jean Baptiste Simonet (French, 1742–1813)
Engraved by: Jean François Rousseau (French, born in 1740)
Engraved by: Jean Baptiste Tilliard (French, 1740–1823)
Engraved by: François Godefroy (French, 1743–1819)
Engraved by: Nicholas Ponce (French, 1746–1831)
Engraved by: Jean Jacques Flipart (French, 1719–1782)
Engraved by: Nicolas Delaunay (French, 1739–1792)
Engraved by: Emmanuel Jean Nepomucène de Ghendt (Flemish, worked in France, 1738–1815)
Engraved by: Louis Joseph Masquelier (French, 1741–1811)
Engraved by: Jean Massard (1740–1822)
Engraved by: François Denis Née (French, 1735–1818)
Engraved by: Jean Charles Levasseur (French, 1734–1816)
Engraved by: Jean-Jacques André Le Veau (French, 1729–1786)
Engraved by: Jean Baptiste de Lorraine (French, born in 1737)
Engraved by: Augustin de Saint-Aubin (French, 1736–1807)
Engraved by: Louis Jacques Cathelin (French, 1738–1804)
After: Maurice Quentin de La Tour (French, 1704–1788)
After: Hyacinthe François Rigau y Ros, called Hyacinthe Rigaud (French, 1659–1743)
After: Carle van Loo (French, 1705–1765)
After: Robert Gardelle II (Swiss, 1682–1766)
Author: François Marie Arouet de Voltaire (French, 1694–1778)
1768–74
Place of Publication: Geneva, Switzerland

Medium/Technique Set of 50 etched and engraved illustrations
Dimensions Overall: 27.3 x 20.6 x 2 cm (10 3/4 x 8 1/8 x 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number37.1737
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrintsBound sets
Geneva: Gerald Cramer, 1768-1774

Catalogue Raisonné Cohen-de Ricci 1040-42; Ray 21
Description[Geneva: Gerald Cramer, 1768-1774] Quarto; 50 leaves; modern gilt-stamped red morocco (Riviere & Son).

Frontispiece; seven portraits (of author, artist, and royalty); illustrations to works by Voltaire
ProvenanceAcquired in 1917 by William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.