Author: CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé); Noé, Amédée de
Title: Moeurs Britanniques
Description: Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. 1850. Fifteen Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates Caricaturing the British CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé). Moeurs Britanniques. Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. [n.d. ca. 1850]. Large folio (13 1/4 x 10 inches; 336 x 252 mm.). Hand-colored lithographed title and fifteen numbered hand-colored lithographed plates, heightened with gum arabic. Publisher's cream-colored glazed lithographed boards neatly rebacked with cream-colored cloth backstrip. A little bit of marginal soiling. Otherwise a near fine copy. Of Charles Amédée de Noé, (1818-1879) ”known as Cham (that is, Ham, the son of Noah)-it was said that he had ‘an idea a day’ for Le charivari. A good proportion of his thousands of lithographs were gathered into albums. His contributions to the Album du siège (173), in which Daumier was his collaborator, are typical of his work” (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, pp. 155-156). The Plates: 1. Une femme bien attachée 2. Le Quaker 3. Le Recruteur 4. Visite au Musée 5. Mariage d’inclination 6. Les Hauts grades 7. Philanthropie. Bien entendue 8. Les Boxeurs 9. L’Écossais 10 Un Costume national 11. Baragouin Britannique 12. In the Stocks 13. Le Péage du turn-pike 14. L’Invalide de Chelsea 15. Smithfied Market Bobins III, 842. .

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