ID: 700001456 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001456	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Prise de la Bastille par les Gardes françaises et les bourgeois de Paris, le mardi 14 juillet 1789 (etching (print); published: Chez Bance, rue St. Severin, no. 25; Published: ca. 1789; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; accession number: P980009* (bx.2,f.4); 2682-023; 682023; (CMalG)1516-756)

Note: The Parisian printer Jacques-Louis Bance aîné lived during the Revolution on the rue St. Séverin at no. 25, then at no. 115. Around the year 1800, he moved rue Saint-Denis, no. 175; The print depicts the taking of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, by the French Guards of the royal army and the people of Paris; The crowds force through the first drawbridge, as the Governor of the Bastille, Bernard Jordan, Marquis de Launay, is arrested, and various buildings are lit on fire. A white flag appears atop the fortress; Forms part of: Prints of the French Revolution, 1774-ca. 1840 (Special Collections, accn. no. P980009*). Publication: A Paris : Chez Bance, rue St. Severin, no. 25, [ca. 1789].

Titles:

Prise de la Bastille par les Gardes françaises et les bourgeois de Paris, le mardi 14 juillet 1789 (preferred,C,U,RP,French-P,U,U)

Taking of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 by the royal army Guards and the people of Paris [Chez Bance] (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Prise de la Bastille par les Gardes françaises et les bourgeois de Paris, le mardi 14 juillet 1789; [graphic]. (C,U,French,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

etching (print) [300041365] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

print (visual work) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: Published: ca. 1789

Creator Display:

published: Chez Bance, rue St. Severin, no. 25 [preferred,GRISC]

publishers Bance, Jacques-Louis (French engraver, publisher, and print seller, 1761-1847) [500354343]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: accession number: P980009* (bx.2,f.4); 2682-023; 682023; (CMalG)1516-756

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Other: Publication: Paris [7008038] Île-de-France (region (administrative division)), France (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: 1 print: etching, tool work, hand colored

	hand coloring [300133555]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <additive and joining processes and techniques>, coloring (process))

	etching (printing process) [300053241]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

	tool work (printmaking marks) [300379420]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by function>, <identifying markings and symbols>, marks (identifying markings), <marks by process or technique>)

Dimensions: image 12.5 x 17.3 cm, plate mark 15.6 x 18.4 cm, on sheet 20.4 x 24.8 cm

General Subject:

history and legend (preferred)

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	Storming of the Bastille [901000248]
	.....((French Revolution, French history, European history, Named Events)) (ICON)

	Gardes Françaises (French infantry regimen, active until 1789) [500354414]
	.....(Corporate Bodies) (ULAN)

	Launey, Bernard René Jourdan (French governor, 1740-1789) [500354418]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	French Revolution [901000102]
	.....((French history, European history, Named Events)) (ICON)

Provenance: lfell; Purchase.

Inscriptions: Prise de la Bastille par les Gardes françaises et les bourgeois de Paris, le mardi 14 juillet 1789

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Prise de la Bastille par les Gardes françaises et les bourgeois de Paris, le mardi 14 juillet 1789	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 682023
Taking of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 by the royal army Guards and the people of Paris [Chez Bance]	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
	........ Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
Prise de la Bastille par les Gardes françaises et les bourgeois de Paris, le mardi 14 juillet 1789; [graphic].	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Note:
English	..... [GRISC]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)