Figures and vignettes: above, deer, hounds, huntsmen, poachers and mounted hunters, below, soldiers in various uniforms and poses with one soldier trying to restrain a baulking horse. Coloured chalk lithograph by the Becquet brothers after V. J. Adam.

  • Adam, Victor, 1801-1866.
Date:
[1852]
Reference:
40177i
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"La foire aux idées" was a phrase used in 1848-1849 to describe the abundance of utopian and revolutionary ideas proposed in printed media, theatre etc. during the political and social changes in France in those years. Here it seems to mean a collection of ideas for artistic compositions that Adam and his viewers couold reuse in other artistic works

Publication/Creation

Paris : Monrocq frères, [1852]

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; sheet 29.9 x 23.2 cm

Lettering

La foire aux idées, par V. Adam. Lettering within the print: V. Adam Bears number: 27

References note

Not found in the Bibliographie de la France, but earlier and later plates in the same series were registered there in April and May 1852

Reference

Wellcome Collection 40177i

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