Fables, by Jean de La Fontaine. Paris (Libraire de Bibliophiles) 1875.
Artwork Details
- Title: Fables, by Jean de La Fontaine. Paris (Libraire de Bibliophiles) 1875.
- Author: Jean de La Fontaine (French, Château-Thierry 1621–1695 Paris)
- Illustrator: Charles-François Daubigny (French, Paris 1817–1878 Paris)
- Designer: Frontispiece portrait of La Fontaine by Léopold Flameng (French (born Belgium), Brussels 1831–1911 Paris)
- Date: 1875
- Medium: illustrated book
- Classification: Books
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1964
- Object Number: 64.610.1–.2
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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