Accession number
PML 141262.79
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris : s.n., 1844]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Below image at lower left: Gavarni; at lower right: Imp Bertauts.
One of 9 lithographs created by Gavarni to illustrate Paul Lacroix's Récits historiques à la jeunesse (Tours : R. Pornin, 1844).
Lithograph tinted with pink tint stone.
Comprises plate 79 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141262).
Library's copy is mounted on a larger album leaf.
One of 9 lithographs created by Gavarni to illustrate Paul Lacroix's Récits historiques à la jeunesse (Tours : R. Pornin, 1844).
Lithograph tinted with pink tint stone.
Comprises plate 79 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141262).
Library's copy is mounted on a larger album leaf.
Description
1 print : tinted lithograph ; image: 156 x 103 mm; sheet: 259 x 171 mm; mounted: 356 x 261 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows an elderly man in a dressing gown standing in a dark doorway with a candle in one hand and his other hand on the handle of the open door, as four children cower in the shadows behind him.
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