Antique Print-Lithograph-FRENCH SATIRE-PARROT-NATIONALISM-from La Caricature-c.1840
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Description Subject: A soldier instructs a parrot to change colours. A National Guard soldier prepares to send his commands to the green-green parrot. Reference to the poem by Jean-Baptiste Gresset ‘Vert-vert or the travels of the parrot of the Visitation of Nevers’. Medium: Lithograph with hand colouring on wove paper (vellin), losely attached to carrier sheet. Artists and engravers: Printed by Victor Hippolyte Delaporte. Aubert editor. Source: La Caricature: series ‘Caricatures diverses, Journal 71’. Paris, 1840-1848. Biographies Ref: Sheet Size: c. 25 x 33.5 cm. Image Size: c. 22.5 x 30.5 cm. Condition: Good, trimmed. Please study scan(s) carefully. Provenance: none. Preview item, not fully described. Inquire. Storage: Expo-satire
