Accession number
PML 141321.29
Creator
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published
[Paris] : Mon. Martinet, [1862]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
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 "81" 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; the separate issue, without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 29 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 "81" 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; the separate issue, without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 29 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Description
1 print : lithograph; image: 256 x 202 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the comical figure of Mr. Prudhomme in his home dressed in a toga and crowned with laurels, surrounded with antiquities and striking a heroic pose as he stands over a brazier as he converses with Mrs. Prudhomme, who stands at right.
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