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Terrible Aventures de Babylon-Machin

Woodcut
1852-1858 (published)
Artist/Maker
Fabrique D'Images Gangel (publisher)
Unknown (engraver)
Place of origin
France (published)

Print depicting an illustration.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Illustration
Woodcuts
Object type
Woodcut
TitleTerrible Aventures de Babylon-Machin (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured woodcut
Wood-Cutting
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
'Terrible Aventures de Babylon-Machin'. Print, popular illustrations (72 on 4 sheets) published by Fabrique de Gangel, Metz, France, between 1852 and 1858. Hand-coloured woodcut.
Physical description
Print depicting an illustration.
Dimensions
  • Size of sheet height: 41.9cm
  • Size of sheet width: 33cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963. London: HMSO, 1964.
Marks and inscriptions
  • (Lettered with title, text and publisher's name and address)
  • '434' (Numbered)
  • (Stamped on the back with the official stamp of the Moselle area)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Guy Tristram Little
Production
Pierre Louis Duchartre and René Saulnier state on p.205 of L'Imagerie Populaire, Paris, 1925, that the firm of Dembour et Gangel came into the hands of Gangel alone between 1852 and 1858.
Associated objects
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1225-1963

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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