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Au commandement de halte! [print].

Accession number
PML 140274.15
Creator
Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845.
Published
[Paris] : Chez Gihaut frères, éditeurs, [1827].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Signed and dated by the artist within the image at left; "Lith. de Villain" below image at right; imprint at lower right.
Copy printed on chine collé.
Library's copy folded down the center and mounted onto bound stub.
Comprises plate 103 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: 235 x 320 mm; sheet: 345 x 530 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows an old corporal instructing conscripts, with a tavern and a crowd of spectators in the background.
Classification
Department