Accession number
PML 140650, p. 25 (facing)
Creator
Avril, Paul, 1843-1904.
Published
1883?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Original drawing for an illustrated border for the first part of Octave Uzanne's anecdotal chronicle of feminine accessories entitled L'ombrelle : Le gant - Le Manchon (Paris : A. Quantin, 1883), p. 24.
Drawing is one of 16 bound into a copy of Octave Uzanne's L'ombrelle : Le gant - Le Manchon, facing p. 25 (see PML 140650).
Drawing is one of 16 bound into a copy of Octave Uzanne's L'ombrelle : Le gant - Le Manchon, facing p. 25 (see PML 140650).
Description
1 drawing.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Drawing shows a Japanese scene with two young women beneath a parasol beside a stream or pond and third woman wading naked into the water at left; a large crab emerges from the water at center and a goose or cormorant is shown swooping down on upon it at right.
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