Name: HONORÉ-VICTORIN DAUMIER (1808-1879)
Brand: Actualités: 74 Plates
Price: 2400.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

HONORÉ-VICTORIN DAUMIER (1808-1879)
Actualités: 74 Plates
a collection of lithographs
1840-1869
including six bon à tirer-proofs, signed, dated and annotated in brown ink by the publisher Destouches, Paris
17 plates with hand-colouring in watercolour, some with gum-arabic
the proofs on thin wove paper, all others on firmer wove paper ('sur blanc')
with margins
some with minor foxing and other small defects
generally in good condition
Images 19,3 x 26 cm. (7⁷⁄₈ x 10¹⁄₄ in.) (and similar)
Sheets 27,4 x 35,5 cm. (10³⁄₄ x 14 in.) (and similar)

André Bloch (d. 1947), Paris (Lugt 68a) (27 plates).
Gabriel Cognacq (1880-1951), Paris (Lugt 538d) (one plate only).
Sotheby's, London, 28 March 2006, lot 130.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.

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In addition to the catalogue description:
6 Proofs: nos. 48, 54, 323, 325, 397 & 440
- all inscribed in the lower margin by the publisher in brown ink Certifie le tirage conforme/ Paris le .../ Destouches, with various dates, plates 48 and 54 only dated and signed by the same hand.
- plate 48 inscribed in red crayon in the upper right corner Oui/ ordre du chef de D...[?]/ 3 Mars 1869, presumably by a printer.
- plate 325 with some oblique creases at lower right and associated staining and surface dirt.
17 hand-coloured Plates: nos. 96, 104, 106, 129, 131, 180, 190, 199, 208, 210, 214, 221, 226, 246, 268, 280 & 237)
- the colours fresh and strong.
- plate 237 with the French Timbre National tax stamp in the lower margin recto.
51 deluxe Impressions (sur blanc): 1, 3, 6, 7, 11, 17, 20, 28, 50, 50 (different subject), 62, 66, 98, 98 (different subject), 122, 142, 148, 165, 169, 171, 177, 190, 197, 199, 224 (two impressions), 246, 268, 278, 295, 308, 370, 397, 411, 412, 419, 429, 437, 441 (two impressions), 468, 478, 479, 480, 484, 520, 546, 552, 556, 578 & 581
- some a little trimmed.
- all plates with varying degrees of light-staining, foxing, time-staining at the sheet edges, some other spots, stains, surface dirt, some minor hinging defects with associated adhesive staining, minor creases and small losses or repairs at the edges and corners.
- many inscribed with the Delteil number and some other inscriptions in the margins recto.
- some with the French Timbre National tax stamp recto.
- the following lots bear the stamp of André Bloch verso: 1,7, 11, 28, 50, 50, 66, 98, 122, 148, 165, 169, 177, 224, 246, 268, 278, 370, 397, 411, 412, 429, 437, 441, 468, 480, 556.
- plate 17 bears the stamp of Gabriel Cognacq verso.
- plate 7 bears an unidentified blind stamp.
Otherwise as described and generally in good condition.
All individually mounted, not framed.

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