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Ils sont les enfants de la France [print].

Accession number
PML 140274.2
Creator
Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845.
Published
A Paris : Chez Gihaut frères éditeurs, [1825]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Date from La Combe.
Signed by the artist within image at lower right; lettered "Lith. de Villain" at lower left; imprint below image at lower right.
Library's copy is printed on chine collé.
Comprises plate 20 of v. 2 of a 5 v. set of albums containing a collection of 496 lithographs by Charlet, including published suites of plates and individually published prints.
Library's copy is folded across the center and mounted on bound stub.
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 300 x 276 mm; sheet: 530 x 345 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a funeral monument to General Foy surrounded by a group of mourners, including a soldier who holds an infant with one arm, a weeping girl kneeling and three blonde children, two of whom hold wreathes; an older man wearing a medal and another figure look on.
Classification
Department