"Fifty Impressions of 10 Etchings" (Title-page to the series published by Marseille Holloway)

"Fifty Impressions of 10 Etchings" (Title-page to the series published by Marseille Holloway)

Item Information

Title:
"Fifty Impressions of 10 Etchings" (Title-page to the series published by Marseille Holloway)
Description:
"Fifty impressions of 10 etchings by Alphonse Legros. Are to be sold by Holloway and son, 25, Bedford Street. Strand. London." A monk holding in one hand a torch and holding up with the other a tablet on which is the preceding inscription. The left part of the plate is still white, also the tablet.
Artist:
Legros, Alphonse, 1837-1911
Date:
[ca. 1854–1911]
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Title pages
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Alphonse Legros (1837-1911). Prints and Drawings
Subjects:
Monks
Torches
Extent:
1 print : etching ; plate marks 31 x 20 cm
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Terms of Use:
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Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Catalogue raisonné number: 162, I.
Notes (acquisition):
Frank E. Bliss Collection of the works of Alphonse Legros, Gift of Albert H. Wiggin, 1943
Notes (date):
Date from bulk dates of collection.
Notes (citation):
Catalogue raisonné cited in this record: Bliss, Frank E., "A catalogue of the etchings, drypoints and lithographs, by Professor Alphonse Legros (1837-1911) in the collection of Frank E. Bliss." (London: Printed for private circulation, 1923).
Catalogue raisonné numbers derived by Bliss from: Poulet-Malassis, Thibaudeau, "Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié de M. Alphonse Legros." (Paris: J. Bauer, 1877)
Notes (object):
First state of five. Very rare.
Identifier:
07_09_000375
Barcode:
36666003299381