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Je ne conçoit pas comment tu as pu t'amouracher d'une pareille araignée...: P.2339-1991

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Je ne conçoit pas comment tu as pu t'amouracher d'une pareille araignée...
Fourberies des hommes

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Damourette, Abel
Printmaker: Meilhac, Henri (Talin)
Printer: Lemercier & Cie

Entities

Categories

Legal notes

Bequest of Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950, transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

Place(s) associated

  • Paris

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

Production date: AD 1853

Note

Published in the Journal 'Paris'.

School or Style

French

Materials used in production

Black carbon ink

Components of the work

Support composed of wove paper
Image Height 190 mm Width 165 mm
Sheet Height 288 mm Width 245 mm

Techniques used in production

Lithography

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: FOURBERIES DES HOMMES.
  • Location: Upper centre
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Title
  • Text: Damourette
  • Location: Image lower right
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Signature
  • Text: Par Talin et Damourette.
  • Location: Lower centre
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Signature
  • Text: Publication du Journal Paris.
  • Location: Lower left
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: Imp. Lemercier, Paris.
  • Location: Lower right
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: - Je ne conçois pas comment tu as pu t'amouracher d'une pareille / araignée... // - Elle est un peu maigre, c'est vrai..... mais ma femme est si / grasse!...
  • Location: Lower centre
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Inscription
  • Text: 25
  • Location: Lower left
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Type: Number
  • Text: 25,
  • Location: Verso
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Type: Number

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.2339-1991
Primary reference Number: 95666
BN Inventaire (19thC): 5 (2)
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 2 March 2023 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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