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Object Type
Museum number: 1876,0510.333
Title: Object: Projet d'encadrement pour le portrait d'Armand Guéraud
Description: Design for a frame for the portrait of Armand Guéraud, conceived as an allegory of the history of printing, consisting of books, including one titled "CODE/LOIS" resting on a lynx, and frieze at base with Japanese characters, hieroglyphs and numbers, and two medallions. 1862 Etching and drypoint with surface tone, printed in brown ink
Producer name
School/style
Production date: 1862
Materials
Technique: etching; drypoint
Dimensions: Height: 187 millimetres; Width: 148 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See curator's comment for 1876,0510.334.
Bibliographic references: Delteil+Wright / Catalogue raisonné of the etchings of Charles Meryon (95.III); Schneiderman 1990 / The Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints of Charles Meryon (83.III)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: allegory/personification; communications (?); printmaking/printing (?)
Associated names
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Philippe Burty; Purchased through: Sotheby's (sale 27.iv-2.v.1876/558); Purchased through: Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau
Acquisition date: 1876
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1876,0510.333

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