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J. Platier [signed in plate.] Chez Bauger R. du Croissant 16.
Chez Aubert gal. Vero-Dodat. Imp. d'Aubert & Cie [Paris, n.d., c.1840].
Lithograph, sheet 265 x 340mm. 10½ x 13½". Pin holes to upper margin.
Riders (at least two are portraits) are thrown from their horses into a river; a crowd watches in the distance at right, frogs simultaneously hopping into the water. Numbered'51' upper right; from a series of caricatures published in a Paris periodical.
[Ref: 22417] £65.00
Chez Aubert gal. Vero-Dodat. Imp. d'Aubert & Cie [Paris, n.d., c.1840].
Lithograph, sheet 265 x 340mm. 10½ x 13½". Pin holes to upper margin.
Riders (at least two are portraits) are thrown from their horses into a river; a crowd watches in the distance at right, frogs simultaneously hopping into the water. Numbered'51' upper right; from a series of caricatures published in a Paris periodical.
[Ref: 22417] £65.00