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Image

Carle Vernet, designer

The Aging Lion, ca. 1825

Description

Maker

  • Carle Vernet, 1758-1836, French, designer
  • Godefroy Engelmann, 1788-1839, French, printer

Title

The Aging Lion

Year

ca. 1825

Medium

lithograph

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • lithograph

Supports

  • medium weight cream wove paper

Dimensions

19.1 x 24.1 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches) (plate)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Verso:in pencil, LL:Beraldi XII 206 414-477; in LC:Carle Vernet/1758-1836In Plate--Above image, UR:P.21.; signed, LR of image:Carle Vernet; below image, right:Lith. de G:Engelmann; below image, center:Le Lion devenu vieux.

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Professor Alan S. Trueblood

Object Number

84.242.37

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Working the Stone

December 19, 1997 - April 5, 1998

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is The Aging Lion with the accession number of 84.242.37. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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