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GB 235 BLT/4/4 · Item · 1793
Part of Thomas Blaikie collection

Monochrome print of Louis XVI, Queen Marie Antoinette and Louis XVII (the Dauphin), pictured in a circular frame above a marble stand containing a vase and various plants. The picture itself has been cut from a larger image and mounted on another piece of paper. The picture is in a black and gold painted wooden frame with a glass panel.
A similar copy of the portrait is held at the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3523963&partId=1&searchText=Louis+seize&page=1
(Box 4)

Sauvage, Pieter Joseph, 1744-1818, sculptor/medallist, painter/draughtsman
Print of Jacque Balma
GB 235 BLT/4/2 · Item · 1789
Part of Thomas Blaikie collection

Portrait of Jacques Balmat wearing a navy jacket and purple waistcoat in a circular, ageing stone frame; beneath is an old ledge under which is a old, cracked, inscribed tablet supported by two wooden bars; an axe and a broken spear cross each other beneath the portrait; foliage grows around the whole structure. Source: British Museum collection, where additional copies are held. https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3308021&partId=1&searchText=Balma&page=1
(Box 3)

von Mechel, Christian
'Primulas in "Swamp Valley"'
GB 235 HJH/2/2/21 · Item · 29 May 1949
Part of Mr. John Herbert Hicks Collection

black and white photograph mounted on lightweight white paper

Photograph of a field of Primulas, mountains in the background.

writing on the front of paper

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Primulas in "Swamp Valley"
May 29th [1949]
13,000 ft.

Hicks, John Herbert