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Itha [print] / par Gavarni.

Accession number
PML 141262.61
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris : s.n., 1843]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Below image: Par Gavarni; at lower right: Imp. d'Aubert & Cie; at upper left: Schmid.
Lithograph created by Gavarni to illustrate a translation of Cristoph von Schmid's story "Itha, Gräfin von Toggenburg", as it appeared in: Contes du chanoine Schmid (Paris : A. Royer, 1843). Cf. Armelhault & Bocher.
Lithograph tinted with yellow tint stone
Comprises plate 61 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141262).
Library's copy is mounted on a larger album leaf.
The 3rd state, with "Imp. d'Aubert & Cie." in place of "Lith. Bertauts, Paris" at lower right.
Description
1 print : tinted lithograph ; image: 174 x 119 mm; sheet: 239 x 176 mm; mounted: 356 x 261 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a young woman sitting on the ground at the foot of a wall, her hair loose and her head lowered, facing left.
Classification
Department