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Lieutenant, je cherche du fourrage pour mon cheval [print].

Accession number
PML 140275.5
Creator
Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845.
Published
Paris : Chez H. Gaugain & Cie rue Vivienne No. 2, 1828.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Date from La Combe.
Lettered "Charlet delt" directly below image at lower left; lettered below caption at left, "Chez H. Gaugain & Cie rue Vivienne No. 2"; at right "imp lith. de H. Gaugain rue de Vaugirard No. 34."
Comprises plate 54 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.
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 114 x 138 mm; sheet: 265 x 345 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a disorderly room where an officer stands over a hussar who has evidently been caught in the act of pillaging; the hussar is kneeling on the ground, his sabre thrust into the side of a buffet in front of him.
Classification
Department