Les Faiseurs de Fagots [The fagot makers] 182
Printmaker: Legros, Alphonse
Two peasants in a landscape, a man and woman, the woman holding a bundle of faggots and the man stooping to chop branches with a billhook.
Given by Professor Alphonse Legros, 24 May 1879
Method of acquisition: Given (1879-05-24) by Legros, Alphonse
19th Century
1877
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1884
Etching with surface tone, printed in black ink on a heavy Japanese paper. An annotation on the mount presents the information given in Dodgson; that this is the second state of fourteen recorded states. Signed in the margin at lower right: 'A. Legros'. One of 20 prints on mounts printed with numbers and titles and contained inside a portfolio half-bound with green cloth (spine and corners) and grey paper and with printed title: 'Eaux-fortes / par Alphonse Legros.'. Acquisition information at lower centre written in pen and ink (probably by John Charrington): 'Given by Prof. A. Legros / 24 May 1879'. The inside of the front board bears the stamp of the London-based mounter and frame-maker, Robert Guéraut who published Legros' etchings after 1863 and who also collected Legros' prints.
Accession number: P.14945-R
Primary reference Number: 240005
Dodgson (Legros): 182.ii
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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