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Jeune! j'avais des dents et pas de pain. Vieux! j'ai du pain et pas de dents! [print].

Accession number
PML 140274.7
Creator
Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845.
Published
[Paris] : Chez Gihaut frères, éditeurs, [1825]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Date from La Combe.
For another version of the same design by Charlet with the same caption see La Combe 301.
Signed by the artist within image at lower right; lettered immediately below image "Lith. de Villain" at lower left; imprint below at right.
Comprises plate 37 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.
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 212 x 165 mm; sheet: 345 x 265 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a toothless old man in a tricorne hat standing in the foreground and holding a cane and a loaf of bread; behind him a boy without shoes begs alms at a window.
Classification
Department