Print Description
Subject: A soldier instructs a parrot to change colours. A National Guard soldier prepares to send his commands to the green-green parrot. Reference to the poem by Jean-Baptiste Gresset ‘Vert-vert or the travels of the parrot of the Visitation of Nevers’.
Medium: Lithograph with hand colouring on wove paper (vellin), losely attached to carrier sheet.
Artists and engravers: Printed by Victor Hippolyte Delaporte. Aubert editor.
Source: La Caricature: series ‘Caricatures diverses, Journal 71’. Paris, 1840-1848.
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Sheet Size: c. 25 x 33.5 cm.
Image Size: c. 22.5 x 30.5 cm.
Condition: Good, trimmed. Please study scan(s) carefully.
Provenance: none.
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