A demon stealing albums from a print-seller's stall. Lithograph by Charlet, 1825.

  • Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845
Date:
1825
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11551i
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A demon stealing albums from a print-seller's stall. Lithograph by Charlet, 1825. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The stallholder sleeps while the devil walks off with the albums. A boy wakes him up and tells him of the theft

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[Paris] (Boulevard des Italiens no. 5) : Chez Gihaut frères, éditeurs, 1825 ([Paris] : I. lith de Vilain)

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1 print : lithograph

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Le Diable emporte les albums. Charlet

References note

Bibliographie de la France, 1 janvier 1825, no. 2 ("Hercule filant auprès d'Omphale, par Charlet. ... -- Le diable emporte les albums. …. A Paris, chez Villain.")-- Image of France database no. 14994
Joseph Félix Leblanc de La Combe, Charlet, sa vie, ses lettres, suivi d'une description raisonnée de son oeuvre lithographique, Paris: Paulin et Le Chevalier, 1856, no. 590
Jean Adhémar, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome quatrième, Paris 1949, p. 330 no. 168 ("Album lithographique, suite de 17 pl. et un frontispice chez Gihaut, 1825: Frontispice: Le diable emporte les albums, marchand d'estampes [L. C. 590] …")

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Wellcome Collection 11551i

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