Accession number
PML 141321.09
Creator
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published
[Paris] : Maison Martinet, [1862]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Image caption title.
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1862 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
At head of image: Actualités.
Plate numbered "25" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image at lower left; lettered "Lith Destouches, 28, r Paradis Pre Paris" at bottom right.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; the separate issue, without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 9 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1862 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
At head of image: Actualités.
Plate numbered "25" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image at lower left; lettered "Lith Destouches, 28, r Paradis Pre Paris" at bottom right.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; the separate issue, without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 9 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Description
1 print : lithograph; image: 251 x 209 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a soldier reclining on the deck of a ship, smoking a pipe and indulging in a fantasy, shown at upper left, wherein he kneels at the feet of a young Mexican woman in a grass skirt and headdress who welcomes him and offers him a gold mine.
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