Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Cinquante francs d'entrée!...merci..., en voila un véritable obstacle..., et sur lequel je ne comptais pas! [print].

Accession number
PML 141321.16
Creator
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published
[Paris] : Maison 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 "46" 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 16 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Description
1 print : lithograph; image: 260 x 214 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a man on horseback, dressed in riding costume and examining a sign through a monocle which reads "Course de marche entrée par cavalier 50 f."; behind him, other riders are visible approaching.
Classification
Department