book of prints;
print
- Museum number
- 1926,0412.278.1-20
- Description
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"Folies-Gauloises depuis les Romains jusqu'à nos Jours. Album de Moeurs et de Costumes par Gustave Doré" (Paris, au Bureau du Journal Amusant) n.d. [1852]; containing 20 humourous lithographs by Doré, numbered 1 to 20, on French manners from the Romans to the present day. Bound together in original green title wrapper.
Lithographs
- Production date
- 1852
- Dimensions
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Height: 261 millimetres
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Width: 331 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Beraldi notes that the "Folies-Gauloises" contains the germs of the illustrations for "Contes drôlatiques", and was republished in London with the title "Historical Cartoons for the 1st century to the 19th."
Green wrapper has large ink stain across the title.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Folies-Gauloises depuis les Romains jusqu'à nos Jours
- Acquisition date
- 1926
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1926,0412.278.1-20
