Research Catalog
Album fantastique de boîtes d'allumettes, collection Roche
- Title
- Album fantastique de boîtes d'allumettes, collection Roche [graphic]
- Publication
- [ca. 1875]
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 album (533 chromolithographs); 26 x 37 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Collection Roche
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Chromolithographs – France – 19th century.
- Drawings – France – 19th century.
- Watercolors – France – 19th century.
- Note
- Title from cover.
- Disbound album consisting of cover and 35 leaves, on each of which are mounted between 7 and 26 chromolithographed matchbox labels, many with legends in French or Italian. Some labels signed: Lith. marseillaise.
- Letters composing title formed in part from grotesque human and animal figures; several are smoking pipes.
- Each leaf is illustrated with ornamental watercolor border, often containing several watercolor drawings: portraits, caricatures, landscapes, etc.
- Call Number
- Arents 95-559
- OCLC
- NYPG95-F291
- Title
- Album fantastique de boîtes d'allumettes, collection Roche [graphic]
- Imprint
- [ca. 1875]
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Roche. CollectorLith. marseillaise.
- Research Call Number
- Arents 95-559