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Auguste Raffet

Les Arabes Signalent l' Approche de l' Armée Française

Maker

Auguste Raffet (French, 1804-1860), designer
Gihaut Frères (France), publisher

Title

Les Arabes Signalent l' Approche de l' Armée Française
Prise de Constantine

Year

1837

Medium

  • lithograph

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • lithograph

Materials

lithograph

Supports

  • Light weight white Oriental tissue paper mounted on medium weight cream wove paper (chine collé)

Dimensions

15.1 x 27.6 cm (5 15/16 x 10 7/8 inches) (plate)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Recto:in pencil, LR:4Verso:in pencil, LL:Raffet, Auguste lithograph $10 ; in LL of image area:a9948 ; in LR of image area:4nnIn Plate--Signed and dated, left of center:Raffet 1836(? -last digit is hard to make out) ; below image, LL:Gihaut frères, Editeurs ; titled under image, LC:LES ARABES SIGNALENT L' APPROCHE DE L' ARMÉE FRANÇAISE./ Octobre, 1837. ; under image, LR:Boulevart (sic) des Italiens, 5. ; numbered, UR:2.

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

76.016

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  • Prints

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Auguste Raffet (French, 1804-1860), designer
Gihaut Frères (France), publisher
Les Arabes Signalent l' Approche de l' Armée Française; Prise de Constantine, 1837
lithograph
15.1 x 27.6 cm (5 15/16 x 10 7/8 inches) (plate)
Mary B. Jackson Fund 76.016

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