Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Le coq du village // [The village cock].
Call Number
E East 49/GC077/Box 50/Normal/Unidentified Artists/Titles J-L GA 2012.01110
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcht24wx82b
Publisher
Epinal, France : [s.n.], n.d. [1800s]
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1800
Extent
1 item ; sheet 39 x 28 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of William H. Helfand. Given 2008.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Unidentified Artist [caricaturist]
Medium: Wood engravings, Stencils (images)
Depiction: A man's adventures through his day.
Provenance: Formerly part of the Pierre Julien collection.
Publisher information: Jean Charles Pellerin (1756-1836), French publisher and the first to publish the series of tales in the form of cartoons. Since his printing shop was in Epinal (in the French Vosges region) he called them "Images d'Epinal".
Item description: Cartoon strip (catch-penny print) from Imagerie d'Epinal.
Inscribed in plate, upper margin: "Pellerin & Cie, imp.-edit. Imagerie D'Epinal".
Numbered in plate, upper right: "772".
Unsigned.

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Broadsides—France—Epinal—19th century—Specimens
Country life—France—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/88b63fbf-70b7-4d88-8b1f-87ae8f64c756/manifest