The Guide
Le Guide
Artist: Auguste Raffet (1804 - 1860) Primary
Artist: Jean François Gihaut (active ) Printer
19th century
Dimensions:
5.51 x 8.07 in. (14 x 20.5 cm)
Dimensions Extent:
image
Object Type:
Print
Creation Place:
Europe, France
Medium and Support:
Lithograph on paper
Credit Line:
Gift of James Reed, 2017
Accession Number:
2017.35.137
Not on view.
The French text reads:
"Nous sommes dans la bonne voie.....
Merci.....dit le caporal, comment est la mauvaise!"
or
"We are on the right track.....
Thank you..... said the corporal, how is the bad way!"
Beneath the image, the publisher is identified at lower left ("I[mprimerie] lith[ographique] de Gihaut frères, Editeurs"), with their address at the opposite side ("Boulevard des Italiens, No. 5").
(translated by Willoughby Thom, intern, summer 2022)
"Nous sommes dans la bonne voie.....
Merci.....dit le caporal, comment est la mauvaise!"
or
"We are on the right track.....
Thank you..... said the corporal, how is the bad way!"
Beneath the image, the publisher is identified at lower left ("I[mprimerie] lith[ographique] de Gihaut frères, Editeurs"), with their address at the opposite side ("Boulevard des Italiens, No. 5").
(translated by Willoughby Thom, intern, summer 2022)
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