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[Illustrations to Collection complette des oeuvres de Mr. de Voltaire]

Illustrated by: Hubert François Gravelot (French, 1699–1773)
Engraved by: Nicolas Delaunay (French, 1739–1792)
Engraved by: Antoine Jean Duclos (French, 1742–1795)
Engraved by: Jean Jacques Flipart (French, 1719–1782)
Engraved by: Isidore Stanislas Helman (French, 1743–1806)
Engraved by: Jean Charles Levasseur (French, 1734–1816)
Engraved by: Jean-Jacques André Le Veau (French, 1729–1786)
Engraved by: Joseph de Longueil (French, 1730–1792)
Engraved by: Jean Baptiste de Lorraine (French, born in 1737)
Engraved by: Louis Joseph Masquelier (French, 1741–1811)
Engraved by: Jean Massard (1740–1822)
Engraved by: François Denis Née (French, 1735–1818)
Engraved by: Nicholas Ponce (French, 1746–1831)
Engraved by: Jean François Rousseau (French, born in 1740)
Engraved by: Jean Baptiste Simonet (French, 1742–1813)
Engraved by: Jean Baptiste Tilliard (French, 1740–1823)
Portrait(s) designed by: Maurice Quentin de La Tour (French, 1704–1788)
Author: François Marie Arouet de Voltaire (French, 1694–1778)
1768–74
Place of Publication: Geneva, Switzerland

Medium/Technique Bound set of 45 etching and engravings
Dimensions Overall: 29.2 x 21.6 x 2.2 cm (11 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number37.1794
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrintsBound sets
[Geneva: 1768-1774]

Catalogue Raisonné Cohen-de Ricci 1040-1041
Description([Geneva: 1768-1774]) Quarto; 45 leaves; nineteenth-century gilt-stamped half black morocco, marbled paper boards.

Author and illustrator portraits; allegorical frontispiece; literary illustrations.
ProvenanceCharles R. C. Tichborne [armorial bookplate]; acquired in 1905 by William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.