Accession number
PML 140275.10
Creator
Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845.
Published
[Paris] : I. Lith de Gihaut frères éditeurs, [1830].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Date from La Combe.
Lettered above the image "No 4" and inscribed in the image (on the placard) "fusilllé pour vol"; lettered below the image with title and "I. lith de Gihaut frères éditeurs" and "Boulevard des Italiens No 5".
"According to La Combe this was part of an untitled series of prints representing scenes from the 1830 Revolution published by Gihaut frères; La Combe states that a series of twelve prints was intended but the idea was abandoned after the first four lithographs due to lack of public interest."--British Museum online catalog.
Library has all 4 plates comprising this numbered but untitled series, bound out of sequence and numbered PML 140275.10-13 (see La Combe 445-448).
Comprises plate 75 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 loss of caption text and all lettering.
Library's copy folded down the center and mounted onto bound stub.
Copy printed on chine collé.
Lettered above the image "No 4" and inscribed in the image (on the placard) "fusilllé pour vol"; lettered below the image with title and "I. lith de Gihaut frères éditeurs" and "Boulevard des Italiens No 5".
"According to La Combe this was part of an untitled series of prints representing scenes from the 1830 Revolution published by Gihaut frères; La Combe states that a series of twelve prints was intended but the idea was abandoned after the first four lithographs due to lack of public interest."--British Museum online catalog.
Library has all 4 plates comprising this numbered but untitled series, bound out of sequence and numbered PML 140275.10-13 (see La Combe 445-448).
Comprises plate 75 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 loss of caption text and all lettering.
Library's copy folded down the center and mounted onto bound stub.
Copy printed on chine collé.
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 335 x 385 mm; sheet: 345 x 530 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Plate no. 4 of 4. Print shows a scene from July 1830 which represents the people at the police barracks; a large crowd in the street with furniture being thrown from the windows of surrounding buildings; figures in the foreground include a man with his arms outstretched and the corpse of a man wearing a placard.
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