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Scène de barricade, Paris, Juin 1848 – Antique Print

Scène de barricade, Paris, Juin 1848 — historic print
Scène de barricade, Paris, Juin 1848. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic print captures Scène de barricade, Paris, Juin 1848 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Scène de barricade, Paris, Juin 1848

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Adolphe Hervier's etching shows a barricade on a Paris street during the June Days of 1848, when the workers' uprising that followed the February Revolution was crushed by the National Guard and regular troops. The print is one of 43 plates collected in the Album Hervier, published in 1888 by L. Joly in an edition of 250, and it is signed and dated on the plate. Hervier, who lived from 1821 to 1879, worked from memory and period sources to record the street fighting, and the heavy drypoint work gives the stones and scattered debris a dense, dark texture.

Medium1 print : etching.
Notes1848
SubjectsEtching by Adolphe Hervier, 1821-1879. Beraldi, 12. One of 43 plates published in 1888 by L. Joly and titled Album Hervier. Edition of 250. Signed and dated on plate. Others inscriptions on plate include: Paris, 1848... Pennell Fund. Ref. copy may be in Geog. File. 2 other impressions. One put down on heavy paper; heavy drypoint. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: France--Paris; France--Hist.--1848; Revolution; Art. Works.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,115 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-152083

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