Accession number
PML 141321.33
Creator
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published
[Paris] : Mon. Martinet, [1864]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Caption continues: Mars - Ça ne fait rien, puisque je vous dis que d'un moment à l'autre ils seront obligés de me rappeler.
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1864 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
At head of image: Actualités.
Plate numbered "95" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image at lower right; lettered "Lith Destouches, 28, r Paradis Pre Paris" at bottom right.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; the separate issue, without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 33 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Caption continues: Mars - Ça ne fait rien, puisque je vous dis que d'un moment à l'autre ils seront obligés de me rappeler.
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1864 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
At head of image: Actualités.
Plate numbered "95" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image at lower right; lettered "Lith Destouches, 28, r Paradis Pre Paris" at bottom right.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; the separate issue, without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 33 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Description
1 print : lithograph; image: 251 x 220 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a senatorial huissier, wearing the chain of his office, addressing the god Mars, who is seated outside the door of the Senat's Salle des Conferences, waiting for admission.
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