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En voilà un qui est pressé de me faire sa cour...attendez au moins le printemps, mon cher, c'est l'usage [print].

Accession number
PML 141321.01
Creator
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published
Paris : Mon. Martinet, [1864?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Image caption title.
At head of image: Actualités.
Plate numbered "4" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image at lower left; lettered "Lith Destouches Paris" at bottom right.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; the separate issue, without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 1 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Description
1 print : lithograph; image: 250 x 204 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the bearded figure of Mars, at right, accosting a young woman in a wide skirt, identified as the figure of the New Year by the "1864" across the front.
Classification
Department