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Frontispice pour Fables et Contes

Rodolphe Bresdin and Lemercier et Cie.

Frontispice pour Fables et Contes

1870

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Frontispice pour Fables et Contes

1870

Physical Qualities Lithograph, Sheet: 279 × 207 mm. (11 × 8 1/8 in.) Image: 224 × 165 mm. (8 13/16 × 6 1/2 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 1996.48.9497
Frontispiece for Hippolyte de Thierry-Faletans, Fables et Contes (Gênes: Typographie de l'Institut royal des sourds-muets, 1871).
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: Signed in stone: lower center, in image "Rodolphe Bresdin" Inscribed in stone: lower right "Imp. Lemercier et Cie Paris"

Markings: Collector's stamp: verso "M.I. / LUCAS / COLLECTION" (Lugt 1695c)

Artist

Rodolphe Bresdin

1821–1884

French, 1822-1885
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Printer

Lemercier et Cie.

1827–1898

operated 1828 - 1899
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