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(Frontispiece.)
Artist
- Name:
- Toudouze, Édouard
- Dates:
- 1848-1907
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Narratives
- Technique:
- Etching
- Engraver:
- Le Sueur, Xavier
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- University of Toronto Library, The Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- La maison du chat qui pelote
- Author(s):
- Balzac, Honoré de
- Publisher:
- Paris: Société d'éditions littéraires et artistiques, 1901
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
A man in a top hat stands at a street corner leaning on a ledge and looking at a storefront as the shopkeeper eyes him sideways from the doorway.
The caption reads in the original French: M. Guillaume aperçut alors le passant en faction.
Caption based on Philip Kent’s translation from The Cat and Battledore. Chicago: Belfords, Clarke & Co, 1879.
Keywords: 1900s, 20th century, black & white, frontispiece, male, shop, street
