Art, literature & history
The Public Scribe
1790
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching with touches of roulette on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 29.6 x 41.8 cm (11 5/8 x 16 7/16 in.) sheet: 32 x 42.6 cm (12 5/8 x 16 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1994.58.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. The Public Scribe. Jean-Jacques de Boissieu; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Jacques_de_Boissieu,_The_Public_Scribe,_1790,_NGA_90185.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Public Scribe — Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. 1790.
Medium: etching with touches of roulette on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 29.6 x 41.8 cm (11 5/8 x 16 7/16 in.) sheet: 32 x 42.6 cm (12 5/8 x 16 3/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1994.58.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.