Accession number:
PML 141262.76
Published:
[Paris : s.n., 1843]
Description:
1 print : tinted lithograph ; image: 174 x 121 mm; sheet: 256 x 178 mm; mounted: 356 x 261 mm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
At foot of image: Par Gavarni; below image at lower right: Imp. d'Aubert & Cie; at upper left: Schmid.
Lithograph created by Gavarni to illustrate a translation of Christoph von Schmid's "Rosa von Tannenburg", as it appeared in: Contes du chanoine Schmid (Paris : A. Royer, 1843). Cf. Armelhault & Bocher.
Lithograph tinted with yellow-beige tint stone.
Comprises plate 76 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 the place of "Lith. Bertauts, Paris" at lower right. Cf. Armelhault & Bocher.
Provenance:
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Print shows a prisoner with a beard, dressed in cape and hose, seated in a dungeon cell on a pile of straw.
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