Album comprised of 31 individual drawings, measuring 9 5/8 x 7 15/16 inches (244 x 202 mm), or smaller, and mounted onto bound album leaves 9 7/8 x 13 inches (251 x 330 mm).
Sheet containing 1 page of printed introductory text from the published set of plates tipped into the volume before the drawings.
Manuscript captions, in French, supplied in brown ink below the mounted drawings.
Album containing 31 original drawings for a published album of lithographic caricatures issued under the title Les Aventures du Vte. de La Linotiere : Lion Féroce / par Archélaüs Niger (Paris : Alph. Ciroux & Cie, 1840?; the plates printed by lithographic printer Thierry frères, Paris), illustrating the misadventures of the provincial Vicomte de Clodomir de la Linotière of Toulon following his arrival in Paris.
Niger, Archelaus. Aventures du Vte. de La Linotiere.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.