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[Plates from L'abeille impériale].

Accession number
PML 141924
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris : Imp. Lemercier, c. 1855]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Collection of costume plates depicting Empress Eugenie, Princesse Mathilde and imperial fashions in the time of Napoleon III.
Plates 1 through 8 printed by Lemercier, with their imprint; plates 9 and 10 printed by Kaeppelin.
Plates 6 and 8-10 are unnumbered.
1-4, 6, 8-10 are printed on chine collé; plate 6 is before all letters.
Description
10 leaves of plates : ill. (lithograph) ; 39 x 30 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
1/2 tan morocco by Pagnant.
Classification
Department