Accession number
PML 140723
Creator
Morin, Louis, 1855-1938.
Published
1897?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Contains 170 original drawings for illustrations for Morin's Carnavals parisiens (Paris : Montgrédien et cie, 1898); including small scale textual illustrations, illustrated titles, and elaborate drawings of the carnival processions executed by the artist on multiple sheets of paper, glued together to accommodate the length of the composition, which have been folded into the album.
Contains 170 original drawings for illustrations for Morin's Carnavals parisiens (Paris : Montgrédien et cie, 1898); including small scale textual illustrations, illustrated titles, and elaborate drawings of the carnival processions executed by the artist on multiple sheets of paper, glued together to accommodate the length of the composition, which have been folded into the album.
Description
1 album (170 drawings)
Provenance
Bookplate of R. Descamps Scrive; bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Series of drawings recording the carnival festivities of Paris, including humorous vignettes, studies of the costumed revellers and illustrations of the processions which were the high point of the celebrations: "Quat'z arts", the "Vache enragée", the Cavalcade des étudiants", and the "Boeuf gras."
Binding
Vellum by E. Carayon, decorated with colored pen-and-ink designs by Morin on the upper and lower boards and spine of the volume; in red marbled slipcase with red morocco and marbled paper chemise.
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