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Le mot de la fin - Possession vaut titre [print].

Accession number
PML 141321.88
Creator
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published
[Paris] : Mon. Martinet, [1865]
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 1865 volume of the Bibliographie de la français.
Plate numbered "218" 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 88 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Description
1 print : lithograph; image: 251 x 216 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows the giant figure of Prussia seated upon a block labeled "Sleswig Holstein Duches", with a smaller block lebeled "Duche" at his feet; he smiles down at three figures who stand before him (Denmark?, Holstein, and a third figure in a pith helmet).
Classification
Department