La Tour de l'Horloge (Primary Title)

Charles Meryon, French, 1821 - 1868 (Artist)

1852
French
Prints
Works On Paper
etching with engraving printed in dark brown ink on laid paper with a watermark: crest with 1852
Sheet: 13 5/8 × 10 5/8 in. (34.61 × 26.99 cm)
Plate: 10 3/16 × 7 1/4 in. (25.88 × 18.42 cm)
Image: 9 3/4 × 7 1/8 in. (24.77 × 18.1 cm)
2015.169
Not on view
Collector's mark of Alphonse Hirsch (Lugt 563) lower right.
Inscribed in graphite lower left: "9642/ besc/ 4000" (?)
Gift of Frank Raysor
Schneiderman, Richard S. The Catalog Raisonné of the Prints of Charles Meryon. London: Garton & Co, 1990.
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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