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Artist
- Name:
- Bayard, Émile
- Dates:
- 1837-1891
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Humor
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Engraver:
- Laplante, Charles
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- The New York Public Library, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Le général Dourakine
- Author(s):
- Ségur, Sophie, comtesse de
- Publisher:
- Paris: Hachette et Cie., 1882
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
Two men are falling backwards in the same helpless posture from a rocky escarpment, one landing on a path, the other among bushes where a fox was hiding.
The caption reads in the original French: Les dents aigües du renard firent pousser au général des cris lamentables.
Keywords: 1880s, 19th century, black & white, children's book, falling, rock
