Accession number
PML 141321.68
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.
Below title caption: Dites donc, si nous profltions de ce que tous les yeux sont tournés vers l'ltalie pour nous reposer un peu?
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1864 volume of the Bibliographie de l'Empire français.
Plate numbered "166" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image; lettered "Mon Martinet ..." and "Lith Destouches, 28, r Paradis Pre Paris" below image.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; issued separately "sur blanc", without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 68 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
At head of image: Actualités.
Below title caption: Dites donc, si nous profltions de ce que tous les yeux sont tournés vers l'ltalie pour nous reposer un peu?
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1864 volume of the Bibliographie de l'Empire français.
Plate numbered "166" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image; lettered "Mon Martinet ..." and "Lith Destouches, 28, r Paradis Pre Paris" below image.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; issued separately "sur blanc", without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 68 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Description
1 print : lithograph; image: 237 x 206 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows two figures representing the Union and the Confederacy leaning face-to-face against a sign post which reads "Amériques Nord-Sud"; in the background at right, a crowd of spectators have gathered around an unseen spectacle labeled "Italie".
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