Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Brioude, active 1848-1853
Title:
Convoi funèbre des victimes de l'attentat du 28 juillet 1835 [graphic] / dessiné d'après nature par Cles. Lemercier, d'après les renseignements recueillis à l'Administration des Pompes Funèbres.
Published / Created:
Se vend à Paris : Chez Brioude, [1835]
Physical Description:
1 print on 8 joined sheets : lithograph ; sheets end-to-end 18 x 341 cm, accordion folded to 18 x 43 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2013 30
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Prints
Notes:
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 531

Lithography by Brioude; after Charles Lemercier.

Title from cover.

BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. In publisher's original black card folder, printed in silver.

Depiction of the funeral cortege of August 5, 1835, for the victims of Fieschi's attempt on the life of Louis Philippe. Victims and mourners are identified in the legend. Descriptions of the attempt and the cortege in Spanish, French and English are mounted on the front pastedown.
Subject Terms:
Louis Philippe, King of the French, 1773–1850 -- Assassination attempts. | Fieschi, Joseph, 1790–1836. | Processions -- France -- Paris -- Pictorial works. | Regicides -- France. | France -- Politics and government -- 1830–1848. | Military funerals -- France -- Pictorial works. | Funeral rites and ceremonies -- France -- Paris -- Pictorial works.
Form/Genre:
Panoramas -- France -- Paris. | Lithographs -- 1835. | Accordion fold format (Binding) | Funeral books -- France -- Paris -- 19th century.
Contributors:
Lemercier, Charles Nicolas, 1797–1859, artist.