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Object Type
Museum number: 1930,0414.286
Title: Object: Un comité de lecture (Reading committee); Series: Galerie théâtrale
Description: Plate 8: interior scene with a group of men, most of them seated around a table; one man reads a document to the others. c 1828 Hand-coloured lithograph
Producer name: Print made by: Henry Monnier; Printed by: Henri Gaugain; Published by: Henri Gaugain; Published by: E Ardit
School/style
Production date: 1828 (circa)
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
Materials
Technique: lithograph; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 130 millimetres (image); Width: 161 millimetres (image)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This lithograph is part of a set of twenty four numbered plates. The set is dated circa 1828 by Marie, but is undated in Béraldi and Champfleury. The BM volume is complete and includes the original paper covers. The front cover is the titlepage. For further information, see 1930,0414.279.
Bibliographic references: Beraldi 1885-92 / Les Graveurs du dix-neuvième siècle (397-421); Champfleury 1879 / Henry Monnier. Sa vie, son oeuvre avec un catalogue complet de l'oeuvre (p.332); Marie 1931 / Henri Monnier (1799-1877) (275-295)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: french costume 19thc; gathering
Associated places: Associated with: Paris
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1930
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1930,0414.286

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