Accession number:
PML 140274.16
Published:
[Paris] : Chez Gihaut frères, éditeurs, 1827.
Description:
1 print : lithograph ; image: 234 x 320 mm; sheet: 345 x 530 mm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Signed and dated by the artist within the image at right; "Lith. de Villain, rue de Sèvres, No 23" directly below image at right; imprint at lower right.
Copy printed on chine collé.
Library's copy folded down the center and mounted onto bound stub.
Comprises plate 104 of v. 2 of a 5 v. set of albums containing a collection of 496 lithographs by Charlet, including published suites of plates and individually published prints.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Print shows an old soldier seated on a stone bench at left, instructing a young infantryman who has a broom under his arm; with a group of soldiers carrying brooms and spades standing behind him at right.
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