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The General Tom Thumb and His Crew (Primary Title)
Le Moniteur de la Mode (Series Title)

Jules David, French, 1808 - 1892 (Artist)

ca. 1851
French
Works On Paper
Prints
hand-colored engraving on wove paper mounted overall to blue paper support
European Art
Mount (blue paper support): 13 × 10 in. (33.02 × 25.4 cm)
Sheet (trimmed): 9 3/8 × 7 in. (23.81 × 17.78 cm)
40.9.70
Not on view
Signed in plate lower left: Jules David
Printed beneath image lower right: (77)/ Lecomte sc. Printed beneath image in center: Le Moniteur de la Mode./ Journal du Grand Monde/ Le Géneral Tom Pouce & son équipage au Chateau de N.../ Edition spéciale de la Maison Popelin-Ducoure (R. Nve Vivienne, 41.)/ Bureaux du Journal. Rue neuve Vivienne. 43./ Paris. Printed in lower left corner: London at the Moniteur Office. D. Dumus 15 Greek Street Soho. Inscribed in graphite on mount, upper right: 8. Inscribed in graphite on mount lower right: 19. Inscribed in graphite on verso of mount upper right: about 1851.
Gift of Margaret Dashiell
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