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Les plaisirs champêtres [print] / par Gavarni.

Accession number
PML 141256.5
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris] : Chez Bauger ; [1840?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Running title at head of each plate: Les plaisirs champêtres No.1 [... No. 6].
Plates lettered with captions.
At foot of the plates, with the order of the imprint information varying: Chez Bauger R. du Croissant 16; Imp. d'Aubert & Cie.; at foot of plate no. 1: par Gavarni.
Published suite of 6 numbered lithographs; with Gavarni's reversed signature in the stone on all but the last plate; nos. 3-6 originally published in La Caricature, May 24, 1840 to Sep. 20, 1840; plates 1 and 2 having previously appeared under the title "Le Dimanche". Cf. Armelhault & Bocher.
Comprises plates 94 through 99 of a bound volume of published sets of prints by Gavarni.
Description
6 prints : lithographs ; sheets: 334 x 255 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department