Accession number
PML 141321.27
Creator
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published
[Paris] : Mon. Martinet, [1864]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Caption continues: Du flan, j'aime mieux le Moniteur, il ne coûte qu'un sou, el il y a de la politique dessus.
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 "72" 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 27 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Caption continues: Du flan, j'aime mieux le Moniteur, il ne coûte qu'un sou, el il y a de la politique dessus.
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 "72" 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 27 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Description
1 print : lithograph; image: 253 x 220 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows two young women in the foreground, one seated in an open carriage at right with a letter in her lap, and the other standing before her at left; directly behind them a pair of whiskered gentlemen regard them keenly and in the background a racetrack with bleachers and jockeys on horseback is visible.
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