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[Woman with rifle and sickle harvesting grain] [print].

Accession number
PML 141321.62
Creator
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published
[Paris] : Mon. Martinet, [186-?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
At head of image: Actualités.
Plate numbered "153" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; issued separately "sur blanc", without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 62 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Library's copy cropped at foot of sheet, with presumed loss of caption text and imprint statement.
Description
1 print : lithograph; image: 251 x 217 mm; sheet: 311 x 272 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a woman crowned with ears of grain harvesting grain with a sickle as she holds a rifle over her shoulder; in the background, similarly armed men work in the field and a loaded hay wain is visible in the background at right.
Classification
Department