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La charité...s'il vous plair!...mon bon monsieur? ... [print].

Accession number
PML 141321.05
Creator
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published
[Paris] : Mon. Martinet, [186-?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Image caption title.
Caption continues: Je ne fais plus l'aumone, depuis qu'on a tracassé ma société de St Vincent-de-Paul!...adressez-vous au SIÈCLE!!
At head of image: Actualités.
Plate numbered "12" 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" at bottom right.
Proof of a rejected rejected lithograph by Darjou, probably created for publication in the journal Le Charivari.
Comprises plate 5 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Description
1 print : lithograph; image: 250 x 214 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With "Refusé" Inscribed in ink below image at lower right.
Provenance
Bookplate of Frederic Robert Halsey; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a figure wrapped in a cloak hurrying past a poor family, at right, who appeal to him for charity; in the background at left stands a sign reading "Lyon".
Classification
Department