Accession number
PML 141262.85
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.
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 85 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141262).
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 85 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141262).
Description
1 print : tinted lithograph ; image: 158 x 100 mm; sheet: 356 x 261 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a boy in a pear tree, reaching overhead to pluck a piece of fruit, as a man seated and partially concealed on a branch above him reaches out a hand to stop him.
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