Charles Meryon
The Clock Tower, Paris
c. 1852
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 356 × 235 mm. (14 × 9 1/4 in.)
Plate: 263 × 186 mm. (10 3/8 × 7 5/16 in.)
Image: 248 × 181 mm. (9 3/4 × 7 1/8 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Plate 11 in the series "Eaux-Fortes sur Paris" (1852-1854)
Credit Line
Gift of Alberta and Henry G. Burke, Baltimore
Object Number
1975.29.6
Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower left, in plate "Publié par L'Artiste"; below image, center, in plate "La Tour de l'Horloge"; below image, lower right, in plate "Impe Aug Delâtre R S Jacque 171"; below image, lower right, in graphite "2nd state" Verso: center in graphite "88"; center in graphite "[indecipherable] other"; lower center left in graphite "2nd state"
Markings: WM: shell
