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Le Cholera. Pardon, mon Capitaine. Ma[...] crois bien que c’est en donnant une poignée de mans au camarade [...]ntre, que j’aurai attrapé la pidérnie regnante......vu que’il sori de l’hopital y a huit jours.
H.te Bellangé 1832. I.Lith. de Gihaut frères éditeurs.
Boulevard des Italiens No.5.
Lithograph. 228 x 183mm. 9 x 7¼". Stain in the title area. Some text missing.
Cholera didn't reach France until the second pandemic between 1829 and 1831, at which point 20,000 succumbed in Paris and 100,000 deaths in all of France. Here a scene of soldiers and their captain drinking away their pains and sorrows at a local street-side bar. One soldier is particularly drunk, hardly holding himself up against a senior officer.
[Ref: 16816] £60.00
(£72.00 incl.VAT)
Ce qu'on dit et ce qu'on pense. Je donnerais trois operas pour avoir fait votre romance. [What we say and what we think. I would give three operas to have written your romance.]
Lith de Gihaut Frères.
chez Gihaut Frères éditeurs [n.d., c.1830].
Fine coloured lithograph. Printed area 180 x 150mm (7 x 6") with large margins.
Two man stand talking in a music room with instruments.
[Ref: 53397] £160.00
(£192.00 incl.VAT)
Melle Taglioni, dans la Sylphide.
Lith. de Gihaut frères Editeurs. Lith par F. Courtin.
Boulevard des Italiens, No. 5, Paris. [n.d., c.1831.]
Lithograph, on india paper. Sheet: 320 x 440mm (12½ x 17¼"). Marking in plate and margins, margins toned. Tears in edges, one in lower edge just into india.
A full-length portrait of Romantic ballet dancer Marie Taglioni (1804-1884) shown in costume and en pointe. Taglioni was the first dancer to use en pointe to express character in a dance. While this print is titled 'dans la Sylphide' the portrait is actually of Taglioni in the title role of La Bayadère and is after and English lithograph by R. J. Lane after A.E. Chalon. Dedication in pencil in lower right corner.
[Ref: 42851] £1,250.00
Le Selim Turc. The Turkish Prayer.
Mme. Colin Pinx et Lith. Lit. de Gihaut Frères.
[French, n.d., c.1840.]
Lithograph in fine colour by hand with gum arabic, on scrap book page. Image 215 x 145mm, 8½ x 5¾". Lacking margins.
Highly romanticized image of two women in an interior in lavish 'oriental' costume; they seem to be a wealthy and important 'lady', seated and holding jewellery, and a servant or supplicant (standing, behind). Landscape through an open window, to left; curtain behind, to right.
[Ref: 25043] £130.00
(£156.00 incl.VAT)
Valentin Industrial Pittoresque et Dramatique. Le parterre se garnissait quelquefois, mais de spectateurs que m'avaient pas de poches.................l'administration devait donc succomber.
Charlet [inside the image.] Lith: de Gihaur freres Editeurs.
Boulevard des Italiens, 5. [n.d. c.1850.]
Lithograph. 274 x 361mm. 10¾ x 14¼".
A group of children surround a boy who is inside a make-shift box putting on a punch and judy show.
[Ref: 15087] £120.00
(£144.00 incl.VAT)
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