Accession number
PML 141321.49
Creator
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published
[Paris] : Mon. Martinet, [1864]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
At head of image: Actualités.
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1864 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
Plate numbered "136" 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; issued separately "sur blanc", without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 49 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
At head of image: Actualités.
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1864 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
Plate numbered "136" 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; issued separately "sur blanc", without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 49 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Description
1 print : lithograph; image: 249 x 206 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a lean old man in quaint costume (cut-away coat, broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat with the brim cocked at a right angle in back, with a long-stemmed pipe in his pocket), representing the region of Schleswig-Holstein, standing at left and addressing a figure in a pith helmet, representing Prussia, who lolls against a tree atop a heap of small houses, household goods, etc.
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