Accession number
PML 141321.65
Creator
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published
[Paris] : Mon. Martinet, [1863]
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 1863 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
Plate numbered "156" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image; lettered "Mon Martinet Paris" and "Lith Destouches" below image.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; issued separately "sur blanc", without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 65 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 1863 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
Plate numbered "156" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image; lettered "Mon Martinet Paris" and "Lith Destouches" below image.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; issued separately "sur blanc", without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 65 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Description
1 print : lithograph; image: 262 x 234 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the old year with his scythe (1862), departing at left, as the new year, portrayed as a young woman, stands with arms folded as she surveys a construction site, marked with a sign reading "Opera", littered with pick axes and broken rocks variously labeled "Prusse", "Question Italienne", "Grece" , "Amerique Nord ... Sud", etc.
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