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Drawing, Cartoon for cotton printing: Six Scenes from the Life of Jeanne d'Arc

This is a Drawing. It was created by Charles Abraham Chasselat and manufactured by Hartmann et Fils and made for Hartmann et Fils. It is dated 1817. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and brown and gray wash on three joined sheets of brown wove paper, laid down. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Bridget Mahon. It is credited Gift of Bridget Mahon.

Its dimensions are

57 x 79.2 cm (22 7/16 x 31 3/16 in.)

It is signed

In pen and black ink on an obliquely placed stone slab in the scene showing the taking of Orléans: "Ch. Chasselat inv. et del. / Paris --1817"

It is inscribed

In pen and black ink, lower left: Britannia (on cloak of dead soldier) In pen and black ink, left center: France (on Jeanne's standard)

Cite this object as

Drawing, Cartoon for cotton printing: Six Scenes from the Life of Jeanne d'Arc; Charles Abraham Chasselat (French, 1782 – 1843); Manufactured by Hartmann et Fils (France); France; pen and black ink, brush and brown and gray wash on three joined sheets of brown wove paper, laid down; 57 x 79.2 cm (22 7/16 x 31 3/16 in.); Gift of Bridget Mahon; 1898-21-27

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