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Champ d'asile
Title
Champ d'asile / Chasselat, del. ; Pomel, sculp.
Publication
A Paris : Chez Bulla, rue St. Jacques No. 38 et chez Ladvocat, Libraire, palais Royal, galerie de bois, Nos. 197 et 198, [approximately 1818]
Physical Description
1 print : intaglio ; 19 x 27 cm, on sheet 28 x 35 cm
Medium
paper
ink
engraving
aquatint
Local Notes
BEIN WA Prints +116: Imperfect: bled at foot, with loss of fourth line of text and publisher's statement. Watercolor hand-coloring.
BEIN WA Prints +122: Not colored.
Notes
Title and statements of responsibility engraved below image.
Publication statement engraved below main text.
Summary
Scene of men chopping, hewing, and carrying wood, with two figures embracing at center. In the lower right corner, a woman feeds a baby whose foot a seated man kisses; another young child leans on the woman. The scene is set among trees with fronds and a shoreline in the distant background.
Format
Images
Language
French
Added to Catalog
August 31, 2020
References
Bibliographie de la France, 8. année (1819), page 189
Subjects
Genre/Form
Intaglio prints.
Also listed under
France Paris.
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