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L'Opera au XIXe. siècle [print].

Accession number
PML 146769
Creator
Beaumont, Edouard de, 1821-1888.
Published
[Paris] : Chez Aubert, [1846?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title from head of plates.
"Imp. d'Aubert & Cie."
Album of 60 hand colored lithographic caricatures by Beaumont, evidently a series previously published in the comic journals of the day and subsequently issued by Aubert as one of their "Album comique" albums.
Most plates lettered "Chez Aubert, Pl. de la Bourse, 29" and "Imp. d'Aubert & Cie." below image.
Library's copy lacks plates no. 39 and 52; plate no. 1 present only in the uncolored state.
Description
60 prints : lithographs, hand col. ; sheets: 351 x 265 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Michael Sadleir; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Disbound plates loosely laid into 1/2 calf binding; with the bookplate of Michael Sadleir.
Classification
Department