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Le nouveau dieu de la Turquie!...ou Mahomet dégommé! [print].

Accession number
PML 141321.19
Creator
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published
[Paris] : Maison Martinet, [186-]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Image caption title.
At head of image: Actualités.
Plate numbered "50" 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 19 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Description
1 print : lithograph; image: 249 x 220 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a man a fez, representing Turkey, kneeling before the figure of a man wearing a glengarry bonnet, representing England, who descends from a cloud holding several bags of money identified by a sign as "Emprunt Turc".
Classification
Department