book of prints;
print
- Museum number
- 1861,1012.1899-1979
- Description
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'Oeuvres choisies de Gavarni, revues, corrigéses et nouvellement classées par l'Auteur. Études de moeurs contemporaines' (Paris: Hetzel) 1846, volume I of IV; containing 4 series of prints after Gavarni by various printmakers: 39 plates for 'Les Enfants Terribles' (1845), 5 plates for 'Traduction en Langue Vulgaire' (1845), 25 plates for 'Les Lorettes' (1846) and 11 plates for 'Les Actrices' (1846); each series preceded by a preface and illustrated title-page by different artists. Including frontispiece by Lorentz showing Gavarni painting on an easel, his back to the viewer, within a border of illustrations made by the artist, the image Gavarni paints on canvas is used as a vignette at the title-page; Gavarni's biography and list of illustrations at the end. Bound in the BM bindery in green leather with raised bands and gold tooled lettering on spine, marbled endpapers and gilded edges.
Wood-engraving
- Production date
- 1846
- Dimensions
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Height: 266 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page)
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Width: 180 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1861,1012.1980-2059 for volume II, 1861,1012.2060-2139 for volume III and 1861,1012.2140-2219 for volume IV.
Each text written by a different author, biography of Gavarni and preface to 'Les enfants terribles' by Gautier, preface to 'Traductions en langue vulgaire' and 'Les Lorettes' by Laurent-Jan, and preface of 'Les actrices' by 'un directeur de thèatre'.
Cataloguing supported by the Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Oeuvres choisies de Gavarni
- Acquisition date
- 1861
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1861,1012.1899-1979
