Content: Etchings, lithographs and transfer lithographs by Rodolphe Bresdin. Subjects include the Holy Family, representations of death (personnified as a skeleton) in situations recalling the Dance of death, bathers, a haunted house and illustrations for Fables et contes by Hippolyte de Thierry-Faletans. Several prints originally appeared in the Revue fantaisiste.
Content: Forms part of Samuel Putnam Avery Collection.
Content: G84, G85, G122, G124, G127, G141 & G152 are lithographs; G88, G93, G101, G103, G107, G108, G110, G111, G114, G119, G135, G138, G143, G144, G145 & G146 are etchings; G86, G92, G131, G137, & G138 are transfer lithographs.
Content: Gift of Samuel Putnam Avery, 1900. G103, G111, G114, G119 & G120 are from the collection of Maxime Lalanne (Lugt 1657). G84 is inscribed by the artist "A mon ami Morin l'auteur Bresdin".
Content: Holdings checked in departmental copy of Dirk Van Gelder, Rodolphe Bresdin: catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre grave.
Content: S.P. Avery Collection.
Content: Title devised by cataloger.
Content: Admission is granted through application to the Office of Special Collections.
Citation/Reference: G146

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NYPL Digital Gallery Description: 4752
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG95-F292
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b12369712
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 15c2bcf0-c60d-012f-d8b6-58d385a7bc34

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