No. 2. Paul et Virginie.Madame de la Tour reprit la lettre en en fit la lecture devant toute la famille rassemblée...
Peint par M.lle Adèle Ferrand. Lith. par Ch. Vogt. Imp. par Lemercier, à Paris.
Paris: V.or Delarue & C.e, Place du Louvre 10 [n.d., 1855].
Lithograph on chine collé, publisher's blind stamp. Printed area 570 x 415mm (22½ x 16¼"). Very large margins spotted and soiled, with a few tears in margins.
A scene from the novel 'Paul et Virginie', by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: Madame de la Tour reads a letter to Paul and Virginie, a white servant and black slave girl. Set on Mauritius, the novel is a parable of the social divisions in French society on the eve of the Revolution.
[Ref: 48512] £480.00
Paris: V.or Delarue & C.e, Place du Louvre 10 [n.d., 1855].
Lithograph on chine collé, publisher's blind stamp. Printed area 570 x 415mm (22½ x 16¼"). Very large margins spotted and soiled, with a few tears in margins.
A scene from the novel 'Paul et Virginie', by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: Madame de la Tour reads a letter to Paul and Virginie, a white servant and black slave girl. Set on Mauritius, the novel is a parable of the social divisions in French society on the eve of the Revolution.
[Ref: 48512] £480.00