Original, hand-coloured lithographs from circa 1860-1890.
"Imagerie d'Epinal Album d' Images" by various French artists.
Printed and hand coloured in France expressly for the Humoristic Publishing Company of Kansas City, Missouri by Jean-Charles Pellerin's Imagerie d'Epinal printing house,
which was founded in 1796.
These historically-important graphics presage the format used by Hal Foster in his Prince Valiant strips by some fifty years, and are clear forerunners of the modern day comic book.
Sheet size: 11.75 x 15.75 inches, lithographed on thin broadsheet paper, blank verso
Note: the paper appears somewhat darker in the scans than in reality.
SOME TYPICAL AGE-TONING TO BE EXPECTED, AS WELL AS MINOR EDGE/CORNER WEAR AND SHORT TEARS. PLEASE REFER TO ENLARGEMENTS BY CLICKING ON THUMBNAIL IMAGES PROVIDED.
PLATE 1
IMPOSSIBLE ADVENTURES
$35
PLATE 2
FRANCIS THE FOUNDLING
$25
PLATE 5
THEODORUS THE SLOVENLY
$25
PLATE 6
THE LITTLE BOYS IN OUR DAYS
PLATE 7
THE BLACK MAN
$50
PLATE 8
IF I WAS A LITTLE BOY
$35
PLATE 9
THE ADVENTURES OF A VOYAGE
$35
PLATE 10
CECILIA THE BABBLER
$25
PLATE 11
THE PRICE OF A LIE
$25
PLATE 12
MARY THE DISOBEDIENT GIRL
$35
PLATE 14
COURAGE RECOMPENSED
$35
PLATE 15
TRUE STORY OF JOHN SERINET
$30
PLATE 17
THE LITTLE GIRLS IN OUR DAYS
PLATE 20
THE MAGIC LANTERN
PLATE 21
THE MIS-ADVENTURES OF MR HEEDLESS
$25
PLATE 22
THE KING OF THE MOON
PLATE 23
WILLIAM TELL
PLATE 24
GENEVIEVE OF BRABANT
$25
PLATE 25
THE SAILOR-BOY'S DREAM
$25
PLATE 26
THE COSTLY DISOBEDIENCE
$25
PLATE 27
THE DISOBEDIENT LITTLE GIRLS
PLATE 28
THE DISOBEDIENT LITTLE BOYS
PLATE 29
THE URCHINS
$25
PLATE 30
THE INQUISITIVE LITTLE GIRL
$30
PLATE 33
THE FLYING TRUNK
$30
(More Imagerie d'Epinal hand-colored prints on the next page)
