Accession number
PML 140275.8
Creator
Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845.
Published
[Paris] : Imp. Lith de Gihaut frères éditeurs, [1830].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Date from La Combe.
Below caption title: Ah! moi! moi! moi, m'sieur l' grenadier, que j'vas vous l' porter vot fusil ...
Signed by the author within image at lower left; lettered at left, "Imp. Lith de Gihaut frères éditeurs," and "Boulevard des Italiens No. 5." at right.
"According to La Combe, versions of this print were made with the title "Le Gamin eminemment et profondement libéral"; the word "libéral" was subsequently replaced by "national". The inscription "BELLANGÉ" on the child's satchel is probably a reference to the lithographer Hippolyte Bellangé."--British Museum online catalog.
Comprises plate 73 of v. 3 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 closely trimmed at head and foot of sheet, with partial loss of caption text.
Copy printed on chine collé.
Below caption title: Ah! moi! moi! moi, m'sieur l' grenadier, que j'vas vous l' porter vot fusil ...
Signed by the author within image at lower left; lettered at left, "Imp. Lith de Gihaut frères éditeurs," and "Boulevard des Italiens No. 5." at right.
"According to La Combe, versions of this print were made with the title "Le Gamin eminemment et profondement libéral"; the word "libéral" was subsequently replaced by "national". The inscription "BELLANGÉ" on the child's satchel is probably a reference to the lithographer Hippolyte Bellangé."--British Museum online catalog.
Comprises plate 73 of v. 3 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 closely trimmed at head and foot of sheet, with partial loss of caption text.
Copy printed on chine collé.
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 280 x 330 mm; sheet: 345 x 530 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a column of soldiers with children marching alongside them; in the foreground one soldier is surrounded by a group of children.
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