A small boy places his grandfather's wig and hat on his younger sister; the grandfather looks on with amusement. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly, 1824.

  • Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845.
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[1824]
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31670i
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A small boy places his grandfather's wig and hat on his younger sister; the grandfather looks on with amusement. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly, 1824. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Paris (quai Voltaire)] : Delpech, [1824] ([Paris] : Delpech)

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 20.5 x 15.3 cm

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La perruque du grand-pere.

References note

Jean Laran and Jean Adhémar, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome troisième, Paris 1942, p. 60, Louis Boilly no. 13. ("La perruque du grand-pere, Le bonnet de la grand-mere, 2 pl. chez Delpech [H 1264, 1265; réimpr. des mêmes chez Aubert, avec les nos 3 et 24.")
Étienne Bréton and Pascal Zuber, Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1761-1845: le peintre de la société parisienne de Louis XVI à Louis-Philippe, Paris: Arthena, 2019, vol. II, pp. 866-867, no. 1967E

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Wellcome Collection 31670i

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