print
- Museum number
- 1852,0424.253
- Title
- Series: Suite de dessins a la plume 1839
- Description
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Plate no 52, a mountainous landscape with a lake and a soldier seated sketching in the mid-ground; a soldier with two horses in the foreground. 1839
Pen Lithograph.
- Production date
- 1839
- Dimensions
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Height: 206 millimetres (image)
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Height: 246 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 392 millimetres
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Width: 393 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Part of an album published by Gihaut frères in 1839 for use of students of the "École spéciales des ponts et chausées" of Metz, produced by Charlet in his capacity as a teacher of drawing at the École Royale Polytechnique.
The drawings are in their original wrapper which incorporates cover illustration by Charlet, see 1852, 0424.202
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La Combe refers to a rare unfinished early idea for this lithograph which does not appear in this collection (See La Combe, 1056).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1852
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1852,0424.253