Accession number
PML 141321.07
Creator
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published
[Paris] : Martinet, [1862]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Image caption title.
Caption continues: M'sieu n'a donc pas entendu dire qu'on allait mettre un impôt sur le sel...faut bien que m'sieu jouisse de son reste!
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 "16" 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 7 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Caption continues: M'sieu n'a donc pas entendu dire qu'on allait mettre un impôt sur le sel...faut bien que m'sieu jouisse de son reste!
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 "16" 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 7 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Description
1 print : lithograph; image: 252 x 229 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows two men representing the Union and Confederacy fighting in the background at left, wielding sacks readind "Sud" and "Nord", with sacks of cotton at their feet; in the foreground at right, a man in a coat and tophat stands looking on, with sack in his hand labeled "Commerce Française" and bales at his feet labeled "Comm[is]sion Expo[r]tation".
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