Lemercier, Joseph-Rosé, Bresdin, Rodolphe, Frontispiece Fables et Contes, Frontispiece with landscape and figures from fables and stories in a frame with plants and snakes, verso bottom center - stamped, Frontispiece with a landscape in which various figures are placed that appear in the fables and stories in the book for which this illustration was designed. On a large stone with the text Fables a young man sits with a book. On the right a man walks with an ox and he finds a broken jar and its contents. On the left a man sits in a boat fishing. Birds or bats fly out of a cave. In the background a rock rises high and a train disappears into a tunnel. The rectangular frame is made up of interwoven branches and tendrils with some foliage here and there. Five snakes are also included in the frame in a fairly natural way., print, engraving, book illustration, prints, engravings, recto bottom right - stamped, verso middle bottom - stamped, height 222 mm, width 158 mm, height 316 mm, width 242 mm, Frans, 1822-08-13 - 1885-01-14, print maker, printmaker, 1868 - 1868, third quarter 19th century, chine collé, lithography (technique), etching transferred to stone, Work conception, after own design by, 1803-06-29 - 1887-01-01, printer, drukker

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