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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2012.75
People
Félix Hilaire Buhot, French (Valognes (Manche), France 1847 - 1898 Paris)
Title
Front cover: Japonisme; back cover: Ex-libris Butterfly and Dragonfly
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Front cover: Japonisme; back cover: Ex-libris papillon et libellule
Series/Book Title: Japonisme
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1883
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/340014

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black on brown laid paper; back cover: etching and aquatint printed in black
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
folded sheet: 50 x 32.6 cm (19 11/16 x 12 13/16 in.)
plate, front cover: 25.8 x 17.6 cm (10 3/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
plate, back cover: 11 x 13.5 cm (4 5/16 x 5 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: front cover, within plate, lower right: Ex. No. 44
  • inscription: front cover, etched in center of plate: JAPONISME / DIX EAUX-FORTES / par / Félix Buhot / Avril 1883
  • inscription: front cover, verso, upper left, graphite: $2800

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Daniel Bell, Cambridge, MA, gift of his estate; to Harvard Art Museums, 2012.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iii/iii; back cover: ii/iii
Standard Reference Number
Bourcard 11; back cover: Bourcard 20

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift from the Collection of Professor and Mrs. Daniel Bell
Accession Year
2012
Object Number
2012.75
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Printed on a vertically folded sheet. The sheet is comprised of two sheets of paper mounted overall, brown laid paper and blue laid paper. Both images are printed on the brown laid paper.

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