Accession number
PML 141321.79
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 français.
Plate numbered "197" 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 79 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 français.
Plate numbered "197" 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 79 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Description
1 print : lithograph; image: 225 x 203 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscription in pencil at head of sheet.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a boy armed with a scythe blade, representing Poland, standing in front of a sign post reading "Prusse" and "Pologne"; he is addressed by Prussia who stands at left, as Russia approaches from the right, with his sword drawn and wearing an expression of shocked surprise.
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