CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé); Noé, Amédée de

Mœurs Britanniques

Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., 1850. Item #05954

Fifteen Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates Caricaturing the British

CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé). Mœurs Britanniques. Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., [n.d., ca. 1850].

Large folio (13 1/4 x 10 inches; 336 x 252 mm.). Hand-colored lithographed title and fifteen numbered hand-colored lithographed plates, heightened with gum arabic.

Publisher's cream-colored glazed lithographed boards neatly rebacked with cream-colored cloth backstrip. A little bit of marginal soiling. Otherwise a near fine copy.

Of Charles Amédée de Noé, (1818-1879) ”known as Cham (that is, Ham, the son of Noah)…it was said that he had ‘an idea a day’ for Le charivari. A good proportion of his thousands of lithographs were gathered into albums. His contributions to the Album du siège (173), in which Daumier was his collaborator, are typical of his work” (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, pp. 155-156).

The Plates:
1. Une femme bien attachée
2. Le Quaker
3. Le Recruteur
4. Visite au Musée
5. Mariage d’inclination
6. Les Hauts grades
7. Philanthropie. Bien entendue
8. Les Boxeurs
9. L’Écossais
10 Un Costume national
11. Baragouin Britannique
12. In the Stocks
13. Le Péage du turn-pike
14. L’Invalide de Chelsea
15. Smithfied Market

Bobins III, 842.

Price: $3,500.00