Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet
Essai à la manière noire (Un Géographe) [Study in the Black Manner (A Geographer)]
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Artist
Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet (French, 1792–1845)French, 1792–1845
CultureFrench
Titles
- Essai à la manière noire (Un Géographe) [Study in the Black Manner (A Geographer)]
Date1831
MediumLithograph (en la manière noire [in “the dark manner”]), printed chiné colle, mounted on wove paper, rare proof
DimensionsImage/Sheet: 8 15/16 × 7 in. (22.7 × 17.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by friends of Neal vonHedemann, in his memory
Object number2011.614
Not on view
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Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil in upper right corner of mount: "rrr."
Inscribed in pencil at bottom edge of mount: "xxx tres rare avec la tete au bas, [in different hand] avant reduction"
Inscribed in pencil at bottom edge of mount: "xxx tres rare avec la tete au bas, [in different hand] avant reduction"
Signature? scratched in lower left corner of image: [illegible]...sp
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