book of prints;
print;
music sheet/cover
- Museum number
- 1949,1011.3.1-11
- Description
-
'Album A. de Latour' (Paris, Alphonse Leduc) 1847; containing 10 lithographs, each illustrating a music sheet that follows the image, the music by Aristide de Latour and lyrics by different artists, the songs titled: 'Marguerite et Marie', 'Perdus en mer!', 'La fée des champs', 'La mule aux clochettes', 'Le bachelier de Paris', 'La sorcière de la montagne', 'Petite fille et petit chat', 'La fète Dieu', 'André', and 'Deux frères d'armes'; together with title-page showing a young muse sitting on the grass with a lute in her hands, a pond in the foreground. Bound in green leather, with title on cover and gold tooled frame around it, same frame on back cover and ornament on spine, gilded edges.
Lithograph
- Production date
- 1847
- Dimensions
-
Height: 293 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each sheet)
-
Width: 225 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Written in pen and ink on flyleaf: "Offert a Madame Bagster comme gage de sincère amitié / [?] Oujol[?] / Paris, Décembre 1847".
Each song with lyrics by a different artist, and image by different lithographer:
'Marguerite et Marie' : lyrics by Laure Jourdain, lithograph by Mouilleron
'Perdus en mer!' : lyrics by Hippolyte Guérin, lithograph by Leroux
'La fée des champs' : lyrics by Eugene de Lonlay, lithograph by Lemoine
'La mule aux clochettes': lyrics by Francis Tourte, lithograph by Leroux
'Le bachelier de Paris' : lyrics by Tourte, lithograph by Nanteuil
'La sorcière de la montagne' : lyrics by Tourte, lithograph by Mouilleron
'Petite fille et petit chat' : lyrics by Guérin, lithograph by Deshays
'La fète Dieu' : lyrics by Mélanie Waldor, lithograph by Deshays
'André' : lyrics by Laure Jourdain, lithograph by Deshays
'Deux frères d'armes' : lyrics by Jourdain, lithograph by unknown
Cataloguing supported by the Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Album A. de Latour
- Acquisition date
- 1949
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1949,1011.3.1-11
