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Les Fleurs Animees, Vol 2, 1847
This is a Les Fleurs Animees, vol 2. It is dated 1847. It is a part of the department.
It is believed that Emile Gallé used Les Fleurs Animées to learn how
to read. Along with Gallé, renowned illustrator and cartoonist J. J.
Grandville was born in Nancy, but he later established himself in Paris.
In these two volumes, Grandville draws fashionable French ladies as
beautiful, wilting wildflowers or threatening poisonous herbs
It is credited Smithsonian Libraries, NC248 .G7F6 1847.
- Les Fleurs Animees, Vol. 1, 1847
- H x W (book open): 27 × 36 cm (10 5/8 × 14 3/16 in.).
- Smithsonian Libraries, NC248 .G7F6 1847.
- 139.2018.12
- Figures Of The Most Beautiful, Useful, And Uncommon Plants , Book
- hand-colored or color-printed and hand-finished, etched and engraved plates.
- 139.2018.6
- A Floral Fantasy In An Old English Garden: Set Forth In Verses & Coloured...
- lithograph on paper.
- Gift of Elizabeth d’Hauteville Kean, Smithsonian Libraries, NX650 .F57 C89....
- 139.2018.14
Our curators have highlighted 2 objects that are related to this one.
- Vase (France), ca. 1900
- glass.
- Bequest of Max Kobre.
- 1996-45-10
- Drawing, Lettering Design for Vase, ca. 1881
- pen and black ink, red and blue crayon, graphite on lined paper [irregular].
- 1986-123-2
Its dimensions are
H x W (book open): 27 × 36 cm (10 5/8 × 14 3/16 in.)