From CARL WILLIAMS RARE BOOKS, LONDON, United Kingdom
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Original drawing. 22 x 14 cm. to sheet edge, laid on to card, framed and glazed in wood (33 x24.3 cm., sepia titles, pencil and possibly conte?, French titles, signed for Gill. N.p.[Paris, n.d.,] after 1867. £375.00 Appears fine, unexamined out of the frame. Hung in the Occult Room of the LSD Library. Louis-Alexandre Gosset de Guines, nom de plume ? Andre? Gill ', caricatured the influential poet Gau- tier as an egg shaped snuff box with the crease of the join of the lid slitting his mouth. He is depicted as a ?pantoufleur' in Oriental slippers and a sleeping cap with 'Regrets Eternel'' across the brim, 'Tabac Du Levant' on his trousers and his Chibouk full of tobacco resting on the floor beside him. A build- ing, perhaps the Panthe?on, is sketched in the background. The publication it is taken from is one of Gill's most famous caricatures from his satirical journal ?Eclipse' . Gill went mad and died in Char- enton, the same asylum as Sade. 243825. Seller Inventory # 243825
Bibliographic Details
Title: Théophile Gautier Académicien par Gill. L?...
Binding: Soft cover
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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