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The Little Pump (Notre-Dame Pump), Paris
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Charles Meryon

The Little Pump (Notre-Dame Pump), Paris

1854

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Charles Meryon

The Little Pump (Notre-Dame Pump), Paris

1854

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 166 × 123 mm. (6 9/16 × 4 13/16 in.) Plate: 108 × 80 mm. (4 1/4 × 3 1/8 in.) Image: 108 × 79 mm. (4 1/4 × 3 1/8 in.)
Portfolio/Series Frontispiece or tailpiece for the second part of the series "Eaux-Fortes sur Paris" (1852-1854)
Credit Line Gift of Alberta and Henry G. Burke, Baltimore
Object Number 1975.29.2

Inscribed: Recto: in image, center, in plate "C'en est fait, / O forfait! / Pauvre Pompe, / Sans pompe, / Il faut mourir! / Mais pour amoindrir, / Cet arrêt inique, / Par un tour bachique, / Que ne pompes-tu, / En impromptu, / Au lieu d'eau claire, / Qu'on n'aime guère, / Du vin, / Bien fin?"; in image, center left, in plate "P"; in image, center right, in plate "N.D."; in image, lower center, in plate "MDCCC LIV_"; in image, lower left, in plate "Meryon"; in image, lower center, in plate "C.M. f. Imp. R. Ne St. Etienne-du-Mont 26_"; below image, lower left, in graphite circile with "303"; below image, lower left, in graphite "L. D 3 v(?) II" Verso: center in ink "-613-"; center in graphite "+ x"; lower right in graphite "ae"

Markings: CM: Barrion (Lugt 76); Unidentified collector

Artist

Charles Meryon

French, 1821-1868

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