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Gare la bombe!... [print].

Accession number
PML 141321.14
Creator
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published
[Paris] : Mon. Martinet, [1862]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Image caption title.
At head of image: Actualités.
Plate numbered "46" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image at lower left; lettered "Lith Destouches, 28, r Paradis Pre Paris" at bottom right.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari.
Comprises plate 14 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Description
1 print : lithograph; image: 250 x 214 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the figure of a young woman representing the year 1862 surrounded by bombs variously labeled "Crise Italienne", "Crise Amerique", "Crise Prusse", "Crise Turqu", etc., with cannon lying on the ground behind her.
Classification
Department