Collection of the University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery, PA.
1983.1.8-1

Armes Symboliques de la ville de Paris [Duplicate]

1851 – 1854 (Date created)

Ink
Etching;Drypoint
Prints
12.5 in W x 18.5 in H (Paper)
French
Crenelated towers and walls above three rows of fleur-de-lis. A ship on a sea with full sails. Olive branches at the bottom.

The preparatory drawing for this print is located at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. This is an imaginary coat of arms by Charles Meryon, but the ship may have been copied from a medieval stone relief in Bourges (Burty, 1879).
In Collection
Purchased from: Collection of A. Barron, F. Bishop (London)
Donated by: Alexander and Anne Lowenthal
Burty and Huish, 1879, p. 54.
Delteil, 1907, no. 21.
Delteil and Wright, 1924, cat. 21.
Burke, 1974, cat. 5, p. 33.
Elizabeth Helsinger et al., "The "Writing" of Modern Life. The Etching Revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850-1940", Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 2008, p. 53, fig. 48.
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