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Costumes historiques pour travestissements [print] / par Gavarni.

Accession number
PML 146759
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris] : Chez Bauger, [184-]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Cover title.
Published suite of 12 hand colored lithographs by Gavarni; the series having been previously issued by Charles Tilt and de Kaeppelin et Cie. under the title "Travestissemens [sic]". Cf. Armelhault & Bocher.
Oval images within decorative printed borders.
Library's copy of the plate listed with the title "Cracovienne" in Armelhault & Bocher (plate no. 7) has variant caption title reading "Argovienne".
Plates lettered at lower left, "Lith. Caboche, Garneray et Cie", and "Gavarni" at lower right, below image.
Description
12 prints : lithographs, hand col. ; images: 199 x 151 mm, oval; sheets: 352 x 264 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Michael Sadleir; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Disbound plates loosely housed with other works by Gavarni in 1/2 calf binding, lettered "Gavarni" in gold on the spine; with the bookplate of Michael Sadleir.
Classification
Department