print;
book;
satirical print;
illustrated book
- Museum number
- 1880,0110.8-14
- Title
- Object: Charenton; or, the Follies of the Age
- Description
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M. de Lourdoueix, "Charenton; or, the Follies of the Age: A Philosophical Romance" (London, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy) 1818; containing 7 plates by or after J. Shury, including: 1. fold-out frontispiece in outline style showing the author inspired by a female jester at left who holds a magic lantern projecting a scene of "Poor France" torn between two political factions -- 2. "Conspirators" -- 3. "The Mustaches" -- 4. "The Man for Principles" -- 5. "The Salad Dresser" -- 6. "The Sovereign" -- 7. "The Pirouëtte". Bound with letterpress titlepage, translator's preface, lists of contents and plates, and 252 pages of text.
Etchings and engraving
- Production date
- 1818
- Dimensions
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Height: 220 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page)
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Height: 216 millimetres (sheet size of frontispiece)
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Width: 131 millimetres
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Width: 245 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- List of Recent Publications by Baldwin, Cradock and Joy bound at the back.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Charenton
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1880,0110.8-14
