Accession number
PML 141262.87
Creator
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.
Published
[Paris] : A. Royer, [1843]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
At foot of image: Par Gavarni; below image at lower right: Lith. Bertauts, Paris; at lower left: A. Royer; at upper left: Schmid.
Lithograph created by Gavarni to illustrate a translation of Christoph von Schmid's "Heinrich von Eichenfels", as it appeared in: Contes du chanoine Schmid (Paris : A. Royer, 1843). Cf. Armelhault & Bocher.
Comprises plate 87 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141262).
Proof before letters printed on chine collé.
Lithograph created by Gavarni to illustrate a translation of Christoph von Schmid's "Heinrich von Eichenfels", as it appeared in: Contes du chanoine Schmid (Paris : A. Royer, 1843). Cf. Armelhault & Bocher.
Comprises plate 87 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141262).
Proof before letters printed on chine collé.
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 173 x 122 mm; sheet: 356 x 261 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the interior of a cave where a band on robbers reside; a small boy half reclines on a block or trunk at left, and a robber stands looking down at him, with one hand resting on rifle.
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