print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1896,0522.33
- Title
- Object: Cantine scolaire
- Description
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Illustrations to Montorgueil's 'Paris au hasard' (Paris: Beraldi, 1895), in-octavo, printed on the same sheet:
Recto: four wood-engravings; the first (for page 250 of the book) shows a waiter sitting in an empty cafe after the exhibition of 1855 in the Palais de l'Industrie (H. 45mm, W. 42mm); the second (for page 255 of the book) shows women accompanying their daughters to their 'brevet' exam (H. 65mm W. 60mm); the third (for page 254 of the book) shows schoolgirls, one of whom carrying a portfolio, gathering in front of their school mistress; in the background schoolboys walk accompanied by their teacher (H. 135mm W. 25mm); the fourth (for page 251 of the book) shows a woman running past a stove set in a large room with orchestra playing on a stage in the background (H. 63mm W. 35mm)
Verso: three wood-engravings; the first (for page 252 of the book) shows girls enjoying an afternoon out at the Champ-de-Mars in Paris (H. 95mm W. 65mm); the second (for page 253 of the book) shows a poor family pushing a cart upon which lays their sick child (H. 45mm W. 55mm); the third (for page 256 of the book) shows shoolgirls having lunch in the canteen (H. 105mm W. 63mm)
Wood-engraving printed on thin paper
- Production date
- 1895
- Dimensions
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Height: 465 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 300 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1896,0522.1 for comment.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Paris au hasard
- Acquisition date
- 1896
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1896,0522.33
