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Melle. Jenny Colon, rôle de Sarah [print].

Accession number
PML 141260.25
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris] : Le Monde dramatique, [1835]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Head of sheet: Le Monde dramatique.
Lettered with title below image; signed "Gavarni" in reverse within the image at lower left.
With "Imprimé chez Caboche et Cie" at lower left; "Place de la Bourse, no. 8, Paris" at lower right.
Lithograph by Gavarni published in the journal Le Monde dramatique in 1835.
Mounted onto bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 25 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141260).
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 178 x 117 mm; sheet: 250 x 163 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the actress and chanteuse Jenny Colon standing, full-length, in her costume for the role of Sarah in the comic opera Sarah, ou, L'orpheline de Glencoé, wearing a gown with a small apron and carrying a jug in her right hand.
Classification
Department