1862. Ma petite je vous recommande ces deux là je n'ai jamais pu les mettre d'accord vous serez probablement plus heureuse que moi [print].

Accession number: 
PML 141321.64
Author: 
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published: 
[Paris] : Mon. Martinet, [1863]
Description: 
1 print : lithograph; image: 246 x 210 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Credit: 
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 "155" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image; 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 64 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).

Variant Title: 

Ma petite je vous recommande ces deux là je n'ai jamais pu les mettre d'accord vous serez probablement plus heureuse que moi

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Print shows a young girl representing the new year (i.e. 1863) addressed by an older woman represent the departing year (1862) who gestures towards two figures representing the Confederacy and the Union who are fighting in the background beneath a sign post reading "Nord" and Sud"; behind them at right stands Father Time, with wings and scythe.

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