Ferdinand Roybet, A. Cadart, and others
Title page for “Illustration Nouvelle”
1871
Scroll
- Artist: Ferdinand Roybet
- Printer: A. Cadart
- Publisher: A. Cadart
Title page for “Illustration Nouvelle”
1871
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 401 × 278 mm. (15 13/16 × 10 15/16 in.)
Plate: 238 × 159 mm. (9 3/8 × 6 1/4 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
1996.48.3044
Final state with letters as published (see 1996.48.3043 for a proof impression before letters). Image depicts a semi-nude blacksmith at an anvil forging armor, with an owl sitting on a cannon behind him, and an industrial city on the background.
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, center right, in plate "ILLUSTRATION / NOUVELLE / 4e. Année / 1872. / A. CADART. Edit. Imp. / 58 Rue Nve des Mathuring. / PARIS"; in image, lower right, in plate "F. Roybet"
Markings: None
