Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Lithographs, British Museum, 19th century

Jan Veth
Paul Verlaine writing
ca. 1892
lithograph
British Museum

 And then the barrel-organ grows fainter, and it is
Silent, and lifeless night arrives, and Venus wavers
On a soft cloud at the bottom of dark skies:
Along the walls are lit the jets of gas.
And the star and the torches make weird zigzags
In a river blacker than the velvet of masks;

– from Nocturne parisien by Paul Verlaine, translated by Karl Kirchwey

Owen Jones
Luxor
mid-19th century
lithograph
British Museum

Frederika Markham
Young woman drawing
early 19th century
lithograph
British Museum


Camille Corot
The fort
1874
lithograph
British Museum


Camille Corot
The reader beneath the trees
1874
lithograph
British Museum

Frederick Francis Foottet
Arched Bridge
19th century
lithograph
British Museum

Frederick Francis Foottet
Ruined Castle
19th century
lithograph
British Museum

Charles Joseph Hullmandel
Arch of Titus, Rome
1818
lithograph
British Museum

Charles Joseph Hullmandel
Coleridge's study, Highgate
ca. 1830
lithograph
British Museum

Charles Haghe
Mr T. Thompson as Cincinnatus
ca. 1824-30
lithograph
British Museum

Camille Pissarro
Bather in the evening
1895
lithograph
British Museum

Camille Pissarro
Bather near a wood
1896
lithograph
British Museum

Carle Vernet
The hunt of the Duc de Berry
1819
lithograph
British Museum

Carle Vernet
The hunt of the Duc de Berry
1818
lithograph
British Museum

I am grateful to the British Museum for making these images available.