Accession number:
PML 141257.1
Published:
[Paris] : Chez Bauger : Chez Aubert, [1843?]
Description:
20 prints : lithographs ; sheets: 335 x 252 mm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Title at head of plates 2 through 20: Souvenirs du bal Chicard.
Plates numbered 1 through 20 at upper right and lettered with captions.
Plates variously lettered with imprints directly below image: Imp. d'Aubert & Cie; Chez Aubert gal Véro-Dodat; at foot of some plates: Se vend chez Bauger & Cie ...
Published suite of 20 numbered lithographs depicting revellers at the "bal Chicard" in costume; most with Gavarni's reversed signature or initial in the stone; originally published in Le Charivari, Mar. 23, 1839 to Jan. 8, 1843. Cf. Armelhault & Bocher.
Library's copy contains 18 of 20 plates; lacking plates 19 ("Minon-Minard") and 20 ("Pistolet").
Comprises plates 1 through 18 of a bound volume of published sets of prints by Gavarni.
Binding:
1/4 red morocco; bound uniformly as a set with PML 141255-62.
Provenance:
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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