Accession number
PML 141321.03
Creator
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published
[Paris] : Mon. Martinet, [1862]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Image caption title.
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1862 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
At head of image: Actualités.
Plate numbered "8" 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" at bottom right.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; the separate issue, without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 3 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1862 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
At head of image: Actualités.
Plate numbered "8" 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" at bottom right.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; the separate issue, without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 3 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Description
1 print : lithograph; image: 254 x 206 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the disgruntled figure of Mars bristling with weaponry and seated at right on a pile of cannon and cannon balls with a shield labeled "Albion"; in the background at left, John Bull embraces an American soldier, with the masts of a ship visible at right.
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