Snuffbox with Voltaire and Rousseau
The busts of the celebrated philosophers François-Marie Arouet Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, rendered in ivory, have been applied to the lid of a papier-mâché box tinted to resemble maple wood.A wooden box in the British Museum with similar portraits is said to commemora...
Artifact
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17286
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object
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normalized
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| provenance |
provenance
William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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| language |
language
en
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pageCount
1
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import
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Source image fields (5)
| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_57.217_Fnt_BW_C82.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_57.217_Fnt_BW_C82.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_57.217_Fnt_BW_C82.jpg |
| imageCount | 1 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.217 |
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Genre
snuffboxes
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