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Eux toujours courir Mes cheveux blanchir Moi, toujours attendre [print].

Accession number
PML 141321.71
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 français.
Plate numbered "178" 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" below image.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; issued separately "sur blanc", without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 71 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Description
1 print : lithograph; image: 246 x 222 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 engaged in combat, as a Black man sits with his back against a tree in the foreground at right, with a sign reading "Negre à affranchir".
Classification
Department