Croquis - [Ten Lithographs]

Paris, Félix Hermet, no date (but mid 19th c.), 190 x 274mm, pp. (26); orig. half cloth, gilt lettering on front board. The complete album as issued by the publisher. - Small word by Hermet, mainly on this publication, and ten orig. lithographs by Isabey, printed (recto only) on Bristol paper, which is an excellent paper for lithographic printing. These ten lithos are part of the 13 which Isabey provided for "Croquis par divers artistes", first published by Rittner and Osterwald aîné (Paris), and by Charles Tilt, London, ca. 1830. The stones then moved to Danlos who resold them again to Félix Hermet, who made the album here offered. -


Germain Hédiard (Delteil 1906), the lithographs described at pages 31-34 (3th, 4th, and/or 5th state); Atherton Curtis 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 21. - Slight rubbing at edges and corners of the cover; a few very faint foxing spots in the first plate; very good condition thus for this very rare album. -


Eugène Isabey (1803-1886) himself paid little attention to his lithographic work, but he was one of the artists, together with Bonington, Daumier, Gavarni and only a few others, whose work was discussed in Atherton Curtis's book "Some Masters of Lithography" (1897).