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Une mansarde était son palais [print] / Gavarni del.

Accession number
PML 141260.60
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris] : L'Artiste, [1835]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Head of sheet: L'Artiste.
At lower right: (Double fantaisie / H. Raisson).
Lettered with title below image; "Imp. par Frey" directly below image at right; artist's initial, in reverse, with date "1835", within the image at right.
Lithograph by Gavarni published in the journal L'Artiste.
Mounted onto bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 60 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141260).
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 169 x 120 mm; sheet: 261 x 187 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a scene from Horace Raisson's "Double fantaisie": a young women standing in a garret room in her shift and corset, unpacking a dress with large gigot sleeves and other items of clothing from a suitcase sitting on the floor at right.
Classification
Department