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La Réponse Incroyable   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Jean Baptiste Gautier

Published by: François Jules Gabriel Depeuille
Title
La Réponse Incroyable
Description
English: Lord Malmesbury (left) and Delacroix (right) face each other in profile with insinuating smiles. They have numbers referring to their words which are engraved beneath the design. Delacroix, '1', stands 'chapeau-bras', holding a tall tasselled cane, wearing a bag-wig and old-fashioned coat and waistcoat. He says, "Bon jour Mylord! Je suis charmé de vous voir à Paris, comment vous portez-vous"; Malmesbury, '2', answers: "Je vous suis obligé de votre gracieuse demande, mais ne pouvant répondre de moi-même, je vais dépêcher un courier a Londres; et à son retour, je saurai la réponse que je dois vous faire." He is dressed as an 'Incroyable'. He strides forward, hat in hand, his right hand in his coat-pocket. He wears a striped neck-cloth projecting beyond his chin, loose coat, with large low 'revers', double-breasted waistcoat, and deep-topped boots with very pointed toes. [His dress closely resembles that of the typical 'Incroyable' in a French print, 'Quel Est le plus Ridicule', satirizing the fashions of 1789, 1796, and 1804. Jaime, ii, Pl. 222. K.] His hair hangs loose round his face, with a long queue. March 1797 [According to George, this print is dated November 1796 (?)]
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Depicted people Associated with: Charles Delacroix de Constant
Date 1797
date QS:P571,+1797-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 308 millimetres (cut)
Width: 267 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.6572
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942) For Malmesbury's peace mission see BMSat 8829, &c. His perpetual couriers to London were an excuse for the final rupture, cf. BMSat 8832. See 'Malmesbury Diaries', 1845, iii. 236 ff.; D. Marshall, 'Rise of Canning', 1938, pp. 162 ff. A gross and unrecognizable caricature of Malmesbury's handsome profile. Hennin, No. 12,261.

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De Vinck records that this was announced in the 'Journal de Paris' for 25 March 1797, which states that Gauthier was the author; a later announcement in the 'Moniteur' for 20 April gives the price as 2 livres. In series with de Vinck 6910 (1998,0426.31).
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-6572
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