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Mother and Child (Primary Title)
Le Journal des Dames and des Demoiselles (Series Title)
Fashion Plate (Object Name)

Jules David, French, 1808 - 1892 (Artist)

1860
French
Works On Paper
Prints
hand-colored engraving on wove paper mounted overall to blue paper support
European Art
Mount (blue paper support): 13 × 9 15/16 in. (33.02 × 25.24 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 7/16 in. (24.13 × 18.89 cm)
40.9.77
Not on view
Signed in plate lower left: Jules David.
Printed beneath image lower right: "Larnoureux Imp. r. St. J. de Beauvais 12", "A. Bodin(?) sc" and "457". Printed beneath image in center: Le Journal des Dames et des Demoiselles./ Edition Belge/ Toilettes et Etoffes de la Maison Delisle, Chapeau d'Alexandrine fleurs de Mme. Laëre. Three illegible ink inscriptions written within image area. Inscribed in graphite on mount lower right: 27. Inscribed in graphite on verso of mount upper right: 1860. Inscribed in ink on verso of mount in center: Plate showing how/ the artist David/ ____(illegible) the Colonists/ and also showed the/ use of gum arabic as a varnish.
Gift of Margaret Dashiell
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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