La Bombe Et La Coquillage

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La Bombe Et La Coquillage
La Bombe Et La Coquillage
Artist/Maker (French, born Monaco, 1921 - 2009)
Publisher (active New York, c.1950 – c.1973)
Date1965
MediumAquatint and mezzotint on paper
DimensionsComposition: 10 3/4 in. × 11 in. (27.3 × 27.9 cm) Sheet: 14 7/8 × 18 3/4 in. (37.8 × 47.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Elbert Lenrow, Class of 1923
Object number1984.62
Not on view

Additional Details

Exhibition History 1986
Clinton, NY. Bristol Campus Center, Hamilton College. "Summer Subjects", May 21 - September 11, 1986 (no cat.).
Provenance 1984: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Elbert Lenrow.
Markings Watermark on verso at lower left: BFK
Signature Signed in pencil at lower right: AVATI
Inscribed Entitled in pencil at lower left: LA BOMBE ET LE COQUILLAGE; editioned in pencil at lower left: 28/210; annotated in pencil on verso at lower left: Mario Avati. (Monaco, 1921) / 66: Nov. 65
Que se rompe la cuerda (May the Cord Break), plate 77 from the series "Desastres de la Guerra (Disasters of War)"
Que se rompe la cuerda (May the Cord Break), plate 77 from the series "Desastres de la Guerra (Disasters of War)"
Francisco Goya
Date: 1810-20, printed 1906
Medium: Etching and aquatint on paper
Object number: 1997.6.2
Quand il y a trente degrés de chaleur, heureux le bourgeois lorsqu’il va dormir dans la forêt de St. Germain, en compagnie de sa femme et de plusieurs lézards! (When there is thirty degrees of heat, happy is the bourgeois man who goes to sleep in the forest of St. Germain, in the company of his wife and many lizards!), no. 27 from the series "Les Bons Bourgeois (The Happy Middle Class)"
Quand il y a trente degrés de chaleur, heureux le bourgeois lorsqu’il va dormir dans la forêt de St. Germain, en compagnie de sa femme et de plusieurs lézards! (When there is thirty degrees of heat, happy is the bourgeois man who goes to sleep in the forest of St. Germain, in the company of his wife and many lizards!), no. 27 from the series "Les Bons Bourgeois (The Happy Middle Class)"
Honoré Daumier
Date: published April 22, 1847
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Object number: 1928.5
Carte Reduite Du Golphe Du Mexique Et Des Isles De L'Amerique Pour servir aux Vaisseaux du Roy Dressee Au Dêpost Des Cartes et Plans de la Marine, Par Ordre de M. Le Comte de Maurepas. Annee 1749.
Carte Reduite Du Golphe Du Mexique Et Des Isles De L'Amerique Pour servir aux Vaisseaux du Roy Dressee Au Dêpost Des Cartes et Plans de la Marine, Par Ordre de M. Le Comte de Maurepas. Annee 1749.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
Date: 1749
Medium: Engraving with hand coloring
Object number: 1971.58
Photograph by John Bentham.
Palenque de los moros hecho con burros para defenderse del toro embolado (The Moors use donkeys as a barrier to defend themselves against the bull whose horns have been tipped with balls), plate 17 from "La Tauromaquia" (The Bullfight)
Francisco Goya
Date: 1815, first published 1816
Medium: Etching and aquatint on paper
Object number: 1928.8
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Photo by J…
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Fernand Leger
Date: published 1959
Medium: Lithograph
Object number: 1985.34
Photo by John Bentham.
Travailleurs couronnant la brêche du bastion 7 (Laborers Surmounting the Breach in Bastion 7), from Souvenirs d'Italie: Expedition et siege de Rome (Memories of Italy: the Expedition to and Siege of Rome)
Auguste Raffet
Date: 1850-60
Medium: Lithograph
Object number: 1928.16
La planche démontrée par le précepte et par l’exemple (The board demonstrated by precept and example), from the series "Les Baigneuses" ("The Bathers")
La planche démontrée par le précepte et par l’exemple (The board demonstrated by precept and example), from the series "Les Baigneuses" ("The Bathers")
Honoré Daumier
Date: published September 13, 1847
Medium: Lithograph on newsprint
Object number: 1984.11
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Richard Earlom
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Medium: Etching and mezzotint on paper
Object number: 1992.48
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Richard Earlom
Date: published January 20, 1802
Medium: Etching and mezzotint on paper
Object number: 1992.49
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Abraham Lincoln
John Sartain
Date: Publ. 1864
Medium: Mezzotint on paper
Object number: 1975.3
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The Earl and the "Professional Gentlemen"
John Leech
Date: before 1864
Medium: Etching and mezzotint on paper
Object number: 1983.93
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The Confession
John Leech
Date: Publ. 1841
Medium: Etching and mezzotint on paper
Object number: 1983.92