C'est dégutant à la fin, fus ne me laisseriez bas zeulement un tut betit laurier ... [print].

Accession number: 
PML 141321.55
Author: 
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published: 
[Paris] : Mon. Martinet, [1864]
Description: 
1 print : lithograph; image: 256 x 222 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Caption title.
Caption continues: Ah mon cher allié ça me va si bien, et puis la gloire de m'avoir accompagné ne vous suffit elle pas.
At head of image: Actualités.
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1864 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
Plate numbered "144" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image; lettered "Lith Destouches, 28, r Paradis Pre Paris" at bottom right.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; issued separately "sur blanc", without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 55 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Print shows the figure of Prussia in a pith helmet crowning himself with laurels and regarding himself in a mirror as Austria stands behind him at left, looking on.

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