Accession number
PML 88596.1-2
Published
[Paris] : Aumont et Herh... Rue St. Jacques 2, [ca. 1838]
Credit line
Gift of Elisabeth Ball, 1965.
Notes
Title and date from Gumuchian.
Each copperplate represents two stories with eight illustrations from each. Plate 1 combines: "The old woman and her pig" and "Further adventures of Dame Trot", each with the illustrations numbered 1-8 and designated with the letters P and F respectively. Plate 2 combines "Old mother Hubbard" and "The comical adventures of Old Dame Trot" with the illustrations numbered 1-7, the first one unnumbered, and designated the letters H and T respectively. The plates are engraved: Aumont et Herh... Rue St. Jacques on the verso.
Two original etched copperplates, for printing all 32 illustrations of four stories which were published by Truchy in Paris in 1838. According to Gumuchian 1710, these two plates were accompanied by the one volume edition of the four stories now in the Elisabeth Ball Collection at the Lilly Library, Indiana University.
The Morgan Library owns two of the four titles printed separately by Trunchy from plate 1: "The remarkable adventures of the old woman and her pig" (PML 88186) and "Further adventures of Dame Trot and her cat" (PML 88187).
Each copperplate represents two stories with eight illustrations from each. Plate 1 combines: "The old woman and her pig" and "Further adventures of Dame Trot", each with the illustrations numbered 1-8 and designated with the letters P and F respectively. Plate 2 combines "Old mother Hubbard" and "The comical adventures of Old Dame Trot" with the illustrations numbered 1-7, the first one unnumbered, and designated the letters H and T respectively. The plates are engraved: Aumont et Herh... Rue St. Jacques on the verso.
Two original etched copperplates, for printing all 32 illustrations of four stories which were published by Truchy in Paris in 1838. According to Gumuchian 1710, these two plates were accompanied by the one volume edition of the four stories now in the Elisabeth Ball Collection at the Lilly Library, Indiana University.
The Morgan Library owns two of the four titles printed separately by Trunchy from plate 1: "The remarkable adventures of the old woman and her pig" (PML 88186) and "Further adventures of Dame Trot and her cat" (PML 88187).
Description
2 copperplates ; 38.2 x 66.5 cm
Provenance
From the Elisabeth Ball collection.
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