print;
album
- Museum number
- 1938,0502.22.22
- Title
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Object: La charmante catin (The charming doll)
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Series: Etudes prises dans le bas peuple ou les Cris de Paris - seconde suite
- Description
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Plate 10: peasant girl sitting on the ground and staring at an elegantly dressed doll standing on the right. 1737
Etching with some engraving
- Production date
- 1737
- Dimensions
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Height: 237 millimetres
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Width: 185 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From the 'Cris de Paris' series; see 1938,0502.22.1 for comment.
For impression of a later edition, with Joullain's address, see 1857,0613.694.
For related drawing see 1857,0613.755.
In this context "catin" is to be understood as "doll", not "prostitute", which is its most common meaning.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1938
- Acquisition notes
- Formerly in the Department of Printed Books
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1938,0502.22.22