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Drawings for Jules Claretie's "La canne de M. Michelet" [drawing].

Accession number
PML 140629.1
Creator
Jazet, Paul-Léon, 1848-
Published
1885.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Drawings mounted onto bound album leaves measuring 363 x 275 mm.
Twelve gouache drawings by Jazet for an illustrated edition of Jules Claretie's La canne de M. Michelet, published in Paris by L. Conquet in 1886.
Drawings form part of an album assembled by Paris publisher L. Conquet containing a collection of 12 drawings, 89 proofs of etchings, and 43 items of original correspondence concerning the illustration and publication of Conquet's edition of Jules Claretie's La canne de M. Michelet (Paris : L. Conquet, 1886), with illustrations by P. Jazet and etched by H. Toussaint.
Description
12 drawings.
Inscriptions/Markings
Drawings signed and dated "1885" by the artist within the image; inscribed with captions at head and foot of sheet, with "(J. Claretie)" in pen at lower right.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department