L'Élagueur [The Pruner] 197
Printmaker: Legros, Alphonse
A bearded male figure wearing a hat beside a stream stoops to cut branches of a bush with a billhook.
Given by Professor Alphonse Legros, 24 May 1879
Method of acquisition: Given (1879-05-24) by Legros, Alphonse
19th Century
Production date:
AD 1878
Drypoint with surface tone, printed in dark brown ink. First and only state of which ten impressions are recorded by Dodgson. 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.14948-R
Primary reference Number: 240008
Dodgson (Legros): 197.i
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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