ID: 700001570 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001570	Record Type: Movable Work

Brutus (etching (print); Moithey, Pierre-Joseph (French engraver, active late 18th-ea...; Published: 1700s; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 2711-159; 711159; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.25,f.7))

Note: "Dieux ! donnez nous la mort / plutot que l'esclavage / Voltaire"--inscribed in the lower center of plate; Watermark: lettering ([...] DE); Verses from Voltaire's play Brutus appear below the portrait bust of the Roman hero; Forms part of: Prints of the French Revolution, 1774-ca. 1840 (Special Collections, accn. no. P980009*). Publication: A Paris : Chez Basset md. d'estampes, rue Jacques, au coin de celle des Mathurins, [17--].

Titles:

Brutus (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

Brutus; [graphic] / dessiné par Desrais ; gravé par Moithey. (C,U,undetermined,,)

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)

engraving (print) [300041340]

..... (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: 1700s

Creator Display:

Moithey, Pierre-Joseph (French engraver, active late 18th-early 19th century); published: Chez Basset md. d'estampes, rue Jacques, au coin de celle des Mathurins [preferred,GRISC]

printmaker Moithey, Pierre Joseph (French engraver, active late 18th-early 19th centuries) [500354585]

publishers Basset, Paul-André (French engraver, active 1785-1830) [500353711]

Desrais, Claude-Louis (French painter, 1746-1816) [500032045]

Voltaire (French writer, historian, and philosopher, 1694-1778) [500354532]

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: 2711-159; 711159; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.25,f.7)

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: stipple engraving, coloring

	prints (visual works) [300041273]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

	stipple engraving (printing process) [300053239]
	.......(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, engraving (printing process))

	coloring (process) [300053043]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <additive and joining processes and techniques>)

Dimensions: plate mark 28 x 22 cm, on sheet 33.5 x 26 cm

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Brutus, Lucius Junius (Roman statesman, 6th century BCE) [500337808]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	watermarks [300028749]
	.....(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 location or context>) (AAT)

Provenance: lfell; Purchase.

Inscriptions: Brutus dessiné par Desrais ; gravé par Moithey. "Dieux ! donnez nous la mort / plutot que l'esclavage / Voltaire"--inscribed in the lower center of plate.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
Brutus	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 711159
Brutus; [graphic] / dessiné par Desrais ; gravé par Moithey.	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

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

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

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