ANTIQUE PRINT- CATCHPENNY-GALINO SIMPLICITY-CARTOON # 19- PELLERIN- 1880

Price: € 34,50

Subject: Number 19 from the series: 'Galino's Simplicity'
Condition: Good, given age. Top margin a little uneven and with a small stain. These prints are printed on very thin newspaperlike paper, and quite delicate. Small tears in the margins. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
Medium: Original coloured prints on thin newspaper like paper.
Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 30 x 40 cm. The image size is ca. 25.5 x 36.5 cm.
Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 11.8 x 15.7 inch. The image size is ca. 10 x 14.4 inch.
Part Number: 7270
Location: B2-12
Description: These original prints are from a series of 60 cartoons consisting each of 16 small coloured prints, depicting a tale, telling a moral story. These so-called 'Catchpenny prints' or 'Images d'Epinal' were published in the period 1860-1890 as English translations from the original French work by Pellerin, Imagerie d'Epinal for the Humoristic Publishing Co., Kansas City.

Artists and Engravers: Jean Charles Pellerin (1756-1836): French publisher and the first to publish the series of tales in the form of cartoons. Since his printing shop was in Epinal (in the French Vosges region) he called them 'Images d'Epinal'.