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La portière [print] : la petite dame du second lui cache quelque chose / par Gavarni.

Accession number
PML 141261.8
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
Paris : H. Gache, [1857]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title from foot of sheet; at head of image: Les Parisiens.
Below image: Paris H. Gache, rue de la Victoire 66; par Gavarni; Imp Lemercier Paris.
Plate number 5 of a suite of 12 numbered lithographs by Gavarni published under the title Les Parisiens; designated "1e série", although this suite was the only one published in this series. Cf. Armelhault & Bocher.
At upper right: 1e série.
Library's copy printed on chine collé.
Comprises plate 23 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni.
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 293 x 192 mm; sheet: 387 x 280 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a man standing, full-length, 3/4 to the left, with his hands in his jacket pockets and wearing a Greek fez.
Classification
Department