Great Ladies (Primary Title)
Journal des Demoiselles (Series Title)
Fashion Plate (Object Name)

A. de Caverne (Artist)

1854
French
Prints
Works On Paper
hand-colored engraving on wove paper mounted overall to blue paper support
Mount (blue paper support): 12 × 8 1/2 in. (30.48 × 21.59 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 6 3/4 in. (24.13 × 17.15 cm)
40.9.78
Not on view
Signed in plate lower left: A de Caverne.
Printed beneath image lower right: Hopwood et ___ (illegible). Printed beneath image in center: Rossin imp St Victor 120 Paris/ Journal des Demoiselles/ Paris, Boulevard des Italiens 1. Printed in lower left corner: 22 année. Printed in lower right corner: No. XII. Inscribed in graphite lower left: 1854. Inscribed in graphite on mount lower right: 24. Inscribed in ink on verso of mount in center: Great Ladies/ Visiting a sick peasant/ nursed by a Sister of Mercy.
Gift of Margaret Dashiell
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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