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Petits, petits! [print] / Gavarni.

Accession number
PML 141260.47
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris] : L'Artiste, [1835?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Head of sheet: L'Artiste.
Lettered with title below image; "Lith. de Frey" directly below image at right; artist's signature in reverse within the image at lower left.
Lithograph by Gavarni published in the journal L'Artiste.
Mounted onto bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 47 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141260).
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 156 x 127 mm; sheet: 235 x 176 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a boy and a girl, dressed in the fashions of the 18th century, seated on the ground out of doors with a bird cage sitting them; the girl (at right) holds a small bird in her hand as the boy idly pokes his finger at another bird who sits chirping on the top of the cage.
Classification
Department