Voyage pour l'Eternité. Service Général des Omnibus Accélerés. Départ à Toute Heure et de Tous les Points du Globe.
by GRANDVILLE
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Paris.: Chez Bulla et Che Aubert., (1830).. Loose as issued with the original lithograph cover.. Oblong small folio. (272 x 364 mm).. Lithograph title / wrapper with monochrome vignette by Grandville on pink wove paper (348 x 268 mm) and nine monochrome lithographs on cream wove paper with printed caption / title beneath and numbered at upper right, each with additional colouring by hand and heightened with gum arabic, all the lithographs, save the first, are signed J. Grandville. The complete series of Grandville's very scarce unfinished suite of satirical and moralistic hand-coloured lithographs.Planned originally to have 23 plates, the publisher, Bulla, stopped publication after the ninth plate because of the political events of July 1830. As noted by CLive Getty: 'Comme dans 'Les Métamorphoses du Jour', Grandville a probablement glissé quelques caricatures politiques parmi les planches moralisantes du 'Voyage pour l'Eternité, où apparaissent vraisemblablement des personnages du gouvernement de Charles X.'Grandville took the idea for this set from Holbein's 'Dance of Death' series bringing the scenes up to date. Here, according to Grandville, death works in a pharmacy mixing drugs, in the army, as a prostitute, chef, chimney sweep and so on.Honoré de Balzac wrote (see 'La Silhouette', Vol. 2, Livraison 4, pg. 28): 'De la profondeur philosophique et de la caricature, voilà ce qu'on ne fait qu'en France et qu'a Paris. M. Grandville avait donné de la bêtise aux hommes, de l'esprit aux animaux, il vient de donner de la gaieté à la mort.'The plates are titled as follows:No. 1 - 'C'est ici le dernier relais'.No. 2 - 'Vais-je bien? ... vous avancez horriblement!'No. 3 - 'Monsieur le Baron, on vous demande? ... Dites que je n'y suis pas.'No. 4 - 'Soyez tranquille, j'ai un Garçon qui ne se trompe jamais.'No. 5 - 'Voilà, Messieurs, un plat de mon métier.'No. 6 - 'Voulez vous monter chez moi, mon petit Monsieur, vous n'en serez pas faché aller.'No. 7 - ' ... pour une Consultation, docteur j'en suis, j'vous suis ... '.No. 8 - 'Oui Madame, ce sera bien la proménade la plus délicieuse! ... une voiture dans le dernier goût! ... un Cheval qui fend l'air, et le meilleur Groom de France! ... '.No. 9 - 'Première Etape.'[Rahir 447; Rebeyrat 292; SR / BF 14; see Getty 152].
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- Bookseller
- Sims Reed Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47366
- Title
- Voyage pour l'Eternité. Service Général des Omnibus Accélerés. Départ à Toute Heure et de Tous les Points du Globe.
- Author
- GRANDVILLE
- Format/Binding
- Loose as issued with the original lithograph cover.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Chez Bulla et Che Aubert.
- Place of Publication
- Paris.
- Date Published
- (1830).
- Pages
- [10 leaves].
- Size
- Oblong small folio. (272 x 364 m
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- Folio
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