Maritime Story Of Jacques Va De Bon Coeur

$4,500 · Offered by Martayan Lan

Textile 81.5 x 70.5 cm , Fabric images printed from copperplate, with maroon body color printed by woodblock. Occasional very minor toning, otherwise very well preserved, with printing clear and color still fresh. Rare mid-19th-century printed textile illustrating an archetypal story of the ideal French mariner, a fisherman’s son named Jacques, who left home as a boy to sail to the Antilles with the merchant marines, met with many

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