The stall of a print seller in Paris: customers look at prints pegged on a line and in portfolios. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux, ca. 1813.

  • Duplessi-Bertaux, Jean, 1750-1818.
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[approximately 1813?]
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29639i
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The stall of a print seller in Paris: customers look at prints pegged on a line and in portfolios. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux, ca. 1813. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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An illustrated book is open on a stand. One of the customers is looking at a large framed equestrian portrait of Napoleon after Carle Vernet: presumably the aquatint by C.F.G. Levachez, which measures 83.7 x 64.5 cm (British Museum online catalogue)

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[Paris], [approximately 1813?]

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; sheet 9.5 x 6.6 cm

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Suite des cris des marchands ambulants de Paris. par J.D. Bertaux JDB Bears number: 1

References note

Jean Adhémar and Jacques Lethève, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome VII, Paris 1954, p. 205 ("Suite des cris de Paris, vers 1813 (Marchand de grav[ures].) frontisp. et douze pl.")

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Wellcome Collection 29639i

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