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Le Pélérinage a Jérusalem

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Charles de Lasteyrie
1759-1849

Le Pélérinage a Jérusalem

Published

[Paris] : litho. de Lasterie Rue du Bac, [10 November 1820]

hand-colored lithograph
image: 258 x 219 mm ; sheet: 292 x 237 mm
Peel 2041
Notes
Date from entry in Rosset.
Trimmed to plate mark.
Print bears a strong resemblance -- and may be related -- to Theodore Lane's The Saint!, published by George Humphrey in London in the same year.
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

In a pose alluding to the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Queen Caroline and Bartolomeo Bergami ride a donkey together. Their clothes are adorned with pilgrim's shells and they embrace one another affectionately. Bergami wears a whip in his boot.

Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Classification
Department