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Ah Mayeux! Mayeux!! chian li li li!...
Ah Mayeux! Mayeux!! chian li li li!...
J. Grandville. Lith. de Langlume.
On s'abonne chez Aubert, Galerie Vero Dodat [Paris, n.d., c.1832].
Lithograph with hand colouring, sheet 270 x 360mm. 10½ x 14¼".
Children chasing a rather freakish man dressed in female clothes (in the manner of 'Little Bo Peep') out of town. Monsieur Mayeux was a fictional hunchback character created by Charles Traviès, who depicted a series of his 'Aventures'. For the Paris periodical 'La Caricature'. Under the regime of Charles X until the Revolution of 1830 the political caricature was prohibited by censorship. In November 1830 Charles Philipon (1800 - 1862) started publishing 'La Caricature', devoted to political satire. In 1832 he published the 'Charivari' with his brother-in-law Gabriel Aubert, with whom he founded the famous publishing house Maison Aubert.
[Ref: 24286]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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[Artillery movements] No 9. Pl VI bis.
[Artillery movements] No 9. Pl VI bis. 5, 20, 0,
Mareschal 1823. Lithog. de Langlumé.
[c.1823.]
Lithograph. 320 x 395mm (12½ x 15½"), with large margins. Foxing, tears in edges.
A pair of gunners loading a shell into a cannon.
[Ref: 55889]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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[Two officials from the Ottoman court]  Balbadgi.  Kislar Aga, Chef des Eunuques noirs.
[Two officials from the Ottoman court] Balbadgi. Kislar Aga, Chef des Eunuques noirs.
Lith. de Langlume et Cie.
[French, n.d., c.1828.]
Lithograph in fine early colour by hand. Sheet 280 x 220mm, 11 x 8¾".
The Ottoman court harem was under the administration of Black Eunuchs and White Eunuchs. Black Eunuchs were Africans who served the concubines and officials in the Harem together with chamber maidens of low rank. The White Eunuchs were Europeans from the Balkans. They served the recruits at the Palace School and were from 1582 prohibited from entering the Harem. An important figure in the Ottoman court was the Chief Black Eunuch (Kizlar Agasi or Dar al-Saada Agasi). In control of the Harem and a network of spies, the Chief Eunuch was involved in almost every palace intrigue. From Charles Deval's 'Deux annees a Constantinople et en Moree...'.
[Ref: 27909]   £110.00   (£132.00 incl.VAT)
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La Mort. [Charles-Ferdinand de Bourbon, Duke de Berry.]
La Mort. [Charles-Ferdinand de Bourbon, Duke de Berry.]
Lith. de Langlume r. de l'Abbaye. N.4.
[n.d., c.1821.]
Lithograph, sheet 230 x 280mm. 9 x 11". Sheet trimmed.
Charles-Ferdinand de Bourbon, Duke de Berry (1778-1820) was on his death bed, his face covered and a crucifix to his chest; surrounded by grieving officers, and a woman and child in another room through a doorway in the background. The Duke de Berry was murdered by the Louis Pierre Louvel (c.1783-1820). It was 13th February 1820 as he left the opera house in Paris that Louvel stabbed and mortally wounded him. Louvel was tried and sentenced to death and guillotined a day later on 7 June 1820. Charles-Ferdinand was to be the future king of France, and his death hastened the downfall and replacement of the Decazes government and the polarisation with new liberal and royalist groups.
See Ref: 16813
[Ref: 16650]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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Chaussée des Geants.
Chaussée des Geants. Giant's Causewary (Irlande).
Dess. et Lith. par Ed. de Montulé. Lith de Langlumé.
Lithograph. Sheet: 370 x 260mm (14½ x 10"). Very large margins.
A view of the basalt columns of the Giant's Causeway, in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. From 'Voyage en Angleterre et en Russie, pendent les années 1821, 1822 et 1823' by Edouard Montulé published in 1825 in which he described his travels to Great Britain and Eastern Europe.
[Ref: 39444]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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La plus grande bete qu on ait jamais vue. [The biggest beast I ever saw.]
La plus grande bete qu on ait jamais vue. [The biggest beast I ever saw.]
Lith. de Langlume.
Au Magasin de Caricatures d'Aubert, Passage Véro dodat [Paris, n.d., c.1830].
Very scarce lithograph in vivid original colour by hand, sheet 355 x 270mm (14 x 10¾"). Tatty extremities; vertical crease close to right edge.
A wonderful image of a giraffe in the military costume of a general, complete with sword and boots, being led by a priest.
BNF: FRBNF41517263.
[Ref: 50340]   £450.00  
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Hôpital de Greenwich.
Hôpital de Greenwich.
dess. et Lith. par Ed. de Montulé. Lith. de Langlume.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Printed area 180 x 230mm (7 x 9"). Very large margins.
A view of Greenwich Hospital from the park, with the masts of ships behind the Isle of Dogs and the dome of St Paul's Cathedral.
[Ref: 39336]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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Londres. Vue de Pont de Waterloo.
Londres. Vue de Pont de Waterloo.
Alph. Leroy del. Lith. de Langlumé.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph. Printed area 210 x 265mm (8¼ x 10½"). Very large margins.
The famouse view, looking up the Thames to Blackfriars Bridge and St Paul's Cathedral.
[Ref: 39335]   £180.00   (£216.00 incl.VAT)
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L'Execution du Marauder.
L'Execution du Marauder.
Lith. de Langlumé. [Two monograms in image, probably of artist and publisher.]
[n.d., c.1824.]
Rare hand-coloured lithograph, image 190 x 300mm (7½ x 11¾"). Some margin trimmed; glued to backing.
Anthropomorphic satire: a black cat in a human smock faces a firing squad of monkeys dressed in the uniforms of French infantrymen. A monkey drummer-boy watches the scene, saluting(?); a tent, fortress and some cavalry in the background. Under Charles X's regime until the Revolution of 1830 the political caricature was prohibited by censorship in France.
[Ref: 25020]   £220.00   (£264.00 incl.VAT)
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Les Métamorphoses du Jour No 31. Concert vocal.
Les Métamorphoses du Jour No 31. Concert vocal.
J. Granville. Lith le Langlume.
chez Bulla Rue St. Jacques No.38 et chez Martinet rue du Coq [n.d., 1829-30].
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 170 x 210mm (6¾ x 8¼").
A choir of a duck, two bulls, a cockerel and another male bird are accompanied by a bull on piano and monkey on a violin, all in human clothes. 'Les Métamorphoses du Jour' was so successful that, before the series was completed, Bulla and Martinet decided to publish an edition titled in both French and English.
[Ref: 53376]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Les Métamorphoses du Jour No 25. [Dancing Lesson.]
Les Métamorphoses du Jour No 25. [Dancing Lesson.]
J. Granville. Lith le Langlumé.
chez Bulla Rue St. Jacques No.38 et chez Martinet rue du Coq [n.d., 1829-30].
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 170 x 210mm (6¾ x 8¼"). Some spotting.
A stag dancing master with a violin gives lessons to a pair of dogs and two huge female grasshoppers, all in human clothes. 'Les Métamorphoses du Jour' was so successful that, before the series was completed, Bulla and Martinet decided to publish an edition titled in both French and English.
[Ref: 53377]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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Proverbes.
Proverbes. L'appetit vient en mangeant.
Pigal [signed in image.] Lith. de Langlumé.
[Paris, n.d., c.1828.]
Lithograph, sheet 315 x 230mm. 12½ x 9". Extremities rather foxed. Damage to top right of plate.
A portly man waiting for his food stares longingly across the table at the thinner man seated opposite who is eating. 'No 55' upper right. After Edmé Jean Pigal (1798 - 1872), from a series of social satires.
[Ref: 22546]   £35.00   (£42.00 incl.VAT)
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Jaq. Sam. Wyttenbach.
Jaq. Sam. Wyttenbach. Ministre de l'Eglise du St: Esprit a Berne...
Lith. de Langlume.
[French, n.d., c.1822.]
Lithograph, rare, sheet 285 x 215mm. 11¼ x 8½". Horizontal fold crease; some minor staining.
Bust portrait of Jacob Samuel Wyttenbach (1748 - 1830), Swiss minister, theologian, and naturalist; author of books on the natural history of the Swiss Alps. The inscription tells us Wyttenbach was a member of the Royal Society in London.
[Ref: 21699]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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