Accession number:
PML 141262.52
Published:
[Paris : s.n., 1838]
Description:
1 print : lithograph ; image: 225 x 165 mm; sheet: 356 x 261 mm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Title from Armelhault & Bocher.
Lithograph issued as a cover design for a suite of 6 plates (excluding the cover) published under the title: Miscellanea, ou, fantaisies / par Gavarni. Paris : Mlle Naudet, 1838.
Artist's signature, in reverse, at lower left.
Library's copy is a proof before all letters.
Comprises plate 52 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141262).
Provenance:
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Print shows the caricatured figure of a man (identified as Gavarni himself by Armelhault & Bocher) standing in his nightshirt with his arms raised, surrounded by a welter of figures and faces, with an expression of fear and alarm on his face.
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