Image
Auguste Raffet, printmaker
Ouverture de la tranchée (Beginning the Trench), 1852
Description
Maker
- Gihaut Frères, 1822, France, publisher
- Auguste Bry, printer
- Auguste Raffet, 1804-1860, French, designer
Title
Ouverture de la tranchée (Beginning the Trench)
Year
1852
Medium
lithograph on wove paper
Materials/Techniques
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Materials
Dimensions
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Plate: 20 x 37.6 cm (7 7/8 x 14 13/16 inches)
Signature / Inscription / Marks
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Lettered: "Raffet 1852"; "Ouverture de la Tranchée. Attaque de gauche s'appuyant a l'Eglise St. Pancratzio. Première nuit du 4 au 5 Juin (Siège de Rome)"; and "Paris, Gihaut Frères éditeurs Boulevart des Italiens, 5. / Paris Imp. par Auguste Bry 114 r. du Bac."
Inscribed in graphite: "Rare trial proof before the number and before the title was altered as it appears in the published state"
Identification
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State
trial proof Type
Credit
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Gift of the Fazzano Brothers
Object Number
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84.198.768
Exhibition History
Exhibition History
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