Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Les agrements de l'hiver // [The pleasures of Winter].
Call Number
E East 49/GC077/Box 51/Normal/Unidentified Artists/Titles L-N GA 2012.01123
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc5t34sx97z
Publisher
Epinal, France : [s.n.], n.d. [1800s]
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1800
Extent
1 item ; sheet 39 x 28.6 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: Different people have trouble with winter weather, including wind, ice, rain, and cold.
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.
Numbered in plate, upper right: "506".
Inscribed in plate, above: "Pellerin & Cie, imp.-edit. Imagerie D'Epinal".
Unsigned.

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Broadsides—France—Epinal—19th century—Specimens
Weather—France—Caricatures and cartoons
Winter—France—Caricatures and cartoons
Rain and rainfall—France—Caricatures and cartoons
Winds—France—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/29c3bf16-1894-40c2-993a-14a406b78c94/manifest