ID: 700001574 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001574	Record Type: Movable Work

Civi optimo J.I. Guillotin (etching (print); Benoît Louis Prévost (printmaker, ca. 1735-1804); Published: 1789; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 2711-406; 711406; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.26,f.1); )

Note: Announced in the Mercure de France, May 1789; "Quid verum atque decens curo et rogo, / et omnis in hoc sum. / Hor."--inscribed below the portrait; " ... / Né à Saintes / Medico peritissimo, amico Offer. Addictiss. CHEREAU"--inscribed below the portrait; Watermark: lettering ([...] MER); The portrait bust of Doctor Joseph-Ignace Guillotin is after a drawing by Jean-Michel Moreau; Set within a round medallion framed with oak leaves, it is adorned with emblems of medicine; Forms part of: Prints of the French Revolution, 1774-ca. 1840 (Special Collections, accn. no. P980009*). Publication: [1789].

Titles:

Civi optimo J.I. Guillotin (preferred,C,U,RP,undetermined-P,,)

Portrait bust of Doctor Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (C,U,RP,English,U,U)

Civi optimo Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (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)

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)

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>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: Published: 1789

Creator Display:

Benoît Louis Prévost (printmaker, ca. 1735-1804) [preferred,GRISC]

Prévost, Benoît-Louis (French engraver and draftsman, 1747-ca. 1804) [500041258]

Moreau, Jean Michel (French printmaker, 1741-1814) [500028967]

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: 2711-406; 711406; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.26,f.1)

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, engraving, b&w

	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>)

Dimensions: plate mark 19 x 12.2 cm., on sheet 25.5 x 16.5 cm

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	physicians [300025809]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in science-related occupations>, <people in health and medicine>) (AAT)

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

	Guillotin, Joseph Ignace (French physician, 1738-1814) [500354432]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	portraits [300015637]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>) (AAT)

Provenance: Collector's mark on verso, possibly of Alfred Morrison, intertwined initials AM within circle; lfell; Purchase.

Watermarks: lettering ([...] MER).

Inscriptions: Civi optimo J.I. Guillotin docteur-régent, ancien professeur de la Faculté de médecine de Paris, né à Saintes / J.M. Moreau del. 1785 ; B.L. Prevost sc.

Marks: collector's

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
Civi optimo J.I. Guillotin	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 711406
Portrait bust of Doctor Joseph-Ignace Guillotin	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Civi optimo Joseph-Ignace Guillotin	........ [GRISC]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

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

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

....................... Bruel, L'estampe, 1770-1871 : Collection de Vinck (1909-1979) 4983

....................... Hennin 11134

....................... Les gravures françaises du XVIIIe siècle : Jean Michel Moreau Le Jeune / par Emmanuel Bocher no. 14

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