[Travestissements] [print].

Accession number: 
PML 141255.1
Author: 
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published: 
[Paris ; London : Charles Tilt?, 184-?]
Description: 
12 prints : lithographs ; sheets: 334 x 255 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Title and imprint from Armelhault & Bocher.
Costume prints of young women from different regions and historical periods of Europe, drawn in half-length.
Published suite of 12 lithographs by Gavarni, being the1st of three states as described by Armelhault & Bocher, before final letters; according to Armelhault & Bocher, the series was originally issued by Charles Tilt and lithographed by de Kaeppelin et Cie under the title "Travestissemens [sic]".
The 1st state before all letters, with caption titles and the artist's reversed signature on the stone and lacking borders and all imprint and title information.
Library's copy of the plate listed with the title "Cracovienne" in Armelhault & Bocher (no. 2634) has variant caption title reading "Argovienne".
Comprises plates 1 through 12 of a bound volume of published suites of prints by Gavarni.

Binding: 
1/4 red morocco; bound uniformly as a set with PML 141256-62.
Variant Title: 

Travestissemens

Provenance: 
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification: 
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