ID: 700001464 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001464	Record Type: Movable Work

Machine proposée à l'Assemblée nationale pour le supplice des criminels par Mr. Guillotin (etching (print); unknown French printmaker; work depicted by Guillotin, Josep...; Published: ca. 1789; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 2682-320; 682320; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.3,f.7))

Note: "Les éxécutions se feront hors de la Ville dans un endroit destiné a cet effet ... / Une semblable Machine a servi au supplice de Titus Mantius romain."--inscribed in the lower margin; The print shows the guillotine used for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation, recommended by the French physician and deputy Joseph-Ignace Guillotin to the National Assembly in October and again in December 1789; Forms part of: Prints of the French Revolution, 1774-ca. 1840 (Special Collections, accn. no. P980009*). Publication: [ca. 1789].

Titles:

Machine proposée à l'Assemblée nationale pour le supplice des criminels par Mr. Guillotin (preferred,C,U,RP,undetermined-P,,)

Proposal for the capital punishment device recommended by Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Machine proposée à l'Assemblée nationale pour le supplice des criminels par Mr. Guillotin; [graphic]. (C,U,undetermined,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:

unknown French printmaker; work depicted by Guillotin, Joseph Ignace [preferred,VP]

printmaker unknown French (French cultural designation) [500125235]

designer Guillotin, Joseph Ignace (French physician, 1738-1814) Extent: work depicted [500354432]

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: 2682-320; 682320; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.3,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

Display Materials: 1 print: etching, hand coloring

	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)

Dimensions: image 27 x 19.2 cm, on sheet 40.2 x 29.2 cm

General Subject:

utilitarian objects (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	guillotine (cutting machinery) [300261951]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, cutting equipment, cutting machinery) (AAT)

	executions (personal life events) [300069680]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), personal life events, deaths) (AAT)

	Palais Bourbon [700000693]
	.....(Palais Bourbon [700000693], Built Works by class: residential structures [700009562], Built Works [700000001]) (CONA)

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

	beheadings [300379186]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), personal life events, deaths, executions (personal life events)) (AAT)

	history (literary genre) [300026358]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, <genres for literature>) (AAT)

Provenance: Unidentified collector's mark on recto: MD within oval; lfell; Purchase.

Inscriptions: Machine proposée à l'Assemblée nationale pour le supplice des criminels par Mr. Guillotin; "Les éxécutions se feront hors de la Ville dans un endroit destiné a cet effet ... / Une semblable Machine a servi au supplice de Titus Mantius romain."--inscribed in the lower margin.;

Marks: collector's

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
Machine proposée à l'Assemblée nationale pour le supplice des criminels par Mr. Guillotin	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 682320
Proposal for the capital punishment device recommended by Joseph-Ignace Guillotin	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
	........ Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
Machine proposée à l'Assemblée nationale pour le supplice des criminels par Mr. Guillotin; [graphic].	........ [GRISC]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

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

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

....................... Bruel, L'estampe, 1770-1871 : Collection de Vinck (1909-1979) 4987

....................... Images of the French Revolution / Claudette Hould p. 292, no. 83

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