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Cape Lion
Public Domain

Auguste Lançon, Alfred Salmon, and others

Cape Lion

1879

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Cape Lion

1879

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 261 × 364 mm. (10 1/4 × 14 5/16 in.) Plate: 218 × 328 mm. (8 9/16 × 12 15/16 in.)
Credit Line The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number 1996.48.12635
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art, through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris

Inscribed: in image, lower left, in plate "Aug. Lançon / 1880"; below image, lower left, in plate "A. Lançon del. et aqua f."; below image, lower center, in plate "L. Baschet Ed."; below image, lower right, in plate "Imp. A. Salmon"

Markings: none

Artist

Auguste Lançon

1835–1886

French, 1836-1887
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Printer

Alfred Salmon

1862–1893

French, active 1863 - 1894
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