Petites images de la guerre sur le front britannique

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Petites images de la guerre sur le front britannique

Artist Jean-Émile Laboureur (French, 1877-1943)

Publisher l’Imprimerie d’A. Vernant, Paris, 1917

Printer engravings: l’Imprimerie d’A. Vernant, Paris; text: Frazier-Soye, Paris

Author Roger Allard (French, 1885 - 1961)

Date1917

DimensionsPortfolio: H: 11 1/2 in. (292 mm); W: 9 in. (228 mm).
Book: H: 11 7/16 in. (291 mm); W: 9 1/8 (232 mm); Depth: 3/16 in. (4 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 11 1/8 in. (283 mm); W: 8 7/8 in. (226 mm).

MediumOriginal prints: 9 engravings on white laid paper. Text: letterpress in black with green (typeface: Caslon italic).

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.634

Not on View

DescriptionNine engravings in black, hors-texte, 175 x 139 each. Engraving is in cardboard cover, unbound.

Label TextThese illustrations to captions, rather than a full text, are executed in a somewhat light-handed Cubist style. The album is a tribute to the steadfast conduct of British soldiers at the front during World War 1.Published ReferencesMellby, Julie, Splendid Pages: The Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books, New York, Hudson Hills Press, 2003, p. 113, fig. 74.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Great War: Art on the Frontline, Jul. 25-Oct. 19, 2014.Comparative ReferencesSee also Garvey, Eleanor M., The Artist & the Book, 1860--1960, Boston, 1961, no. 152, repr.

See also Stein, Donna, Cubist Prints/Cubist Books, New York, 1983, no. 60, p. 75, repr.

See also The Frank Crowninshield Collection of Modern French Illustrated Books, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1943, no. 424.