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Thomas Sidney Cooper
1803-1902
Maison des Trois Têtes à Bruxelles / Cooper delt. ; Imp des Beaux Arts 11 bis Passage du Prince.
[Bruxelles : Imprimerie de F. Biénez, 1847]
lithograph
image: 184 x 139 mm; sheet: 321 x 227 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2144
Notes
Title from published caption; at head of sheet: Bruxelles ancien.
Cooper's drawing previously published as a lithograph by de la Cour, ca. 1828, with title, "Rue des Trois Têtes à Bruxelles".
Published as an illustrative plate in the periodical "La renaissance chronique des arts et de la littérature" 1847, v. 9, p. 129 (facing).
Cooper's drawing previously published as a lithograph by de la Cour, ca. 1828, with title, "Rue des Trois Têtes à Bruxelles".
Published as an illustrative plate in the periodical "La renaissance chronique des arts et de la littérature" 1847, v. 9, p. 129 (facing).
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a street view with a three-story house with three heads sculpted in relief in ovals between windows on the first floor and the second, a window on the ground floor below flanked by two statues, a man talking with two children in the left foreground.
Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints
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