Chapter V: Frontispieces, Addresses, Rebuses, Miscellaneous Subjects
87 (47)--Adresse de Rochoux. 1856? (5 states--_see_ Wright). 88 (48a)--Vers à Eugène Bléry (small plate). 1854. 89 (48)--Vers à Eugène Bléry (large plate). 1854 (2 states--_see_ Wright). 90 (--)--L’Attelage. 91 (49)--La loi lunaire, 1st plate. 1856 (3 states--_see_ Wright). 92 (50)--La loi lunaire, 2nd plate. 1866 (6 states--_see_ Wright). 93 (51)--La loi solaire. 1855. 94 (82)--Présentation du Valère Maxime au roi Louis XI. 1860 (6 states--_see_ Wright). 95 (54)--Projet d’encadrement pour le portrait d’Armand Guéraud. 1862 (10 states--_see_ Wright; there is another, following Delteil’s 6th, still undescribed) 96 (61)--Frontispice pour le catalogue de Th. de Leu. 1866. 97, 98 (52, 53)--Projets de billets d’action (2 states--_see_ Wright). 99 (59)--Petit Prince Dito. 1864 (3 states--_see_ Wright). 100 (55)--Rébus: La Vendetta. 1863 (2 states). 101 (57)--Rébus: Béranger. 1863 (4 states--_see_ Wright). 102 (56)--Rébus: Morny. 1866 (3 states).
PLATE 1. CHARLES MERYON. BY FÉLIX BRACQUEMOND. 9 × 5-7/8 in.]
FOOTNOTES:
[1] In each case the dimensions given are those of the original plate, and not of the subject or engraved surface.
[2] A list of the contents of the set, “Eaux-Fortes sur Paris,” may be found useful; it is as follows:--
A. Meryon’s portrait by Bracquemond.
1. The title. 2. Dedication to R. Zeeman. 3. Porte du Palais de Justice (frontispiece). 4. Verses, “Qu’âme pure gémisse.” 5. Arms of the City of Paris. 6. Le Stryge (numbered 1). 7. Le Petit Pont (numbered 2). 8. L’Arche du Pont Notre-Dame (numbered 3). 9. La Galerie Notre-Dame (numbered 4). 10. La Rue des Mauvais Garçons. 11. La Tour de l’Horloge (numbered 5). 12. Tourelle de la rue de la Tixéranderie (numbered 6). 13. St. Etienne-du-Mont (numbered 7). 14. La Pompe Notre-Dame (numbered 8). 15. La Petite Pompe. 16. Le Pont-Neuf (numbered 9). 17. Le Pont-au-Change (numbered 10). 18. Verses, “L’Espérance.” 19. La Morgue (numbered 11). 20. Verses, “L’Hôtellerie de la Mort.” 21. L’Abside de Notre-Dame (numbered 12). 22. Tombeau de Molière.
[3] This portrait is extremely rare, as only ten impressions were taken; it has been reproduced by heliogravure. The impression reproduced in this book is in the collection of the author.
[4] When states are not mentioned it is to be understood that there is only one state.
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