Friday, March 2, 2012

Print of the Day: The Langlumé Pick-pocket Punch, 19th C.

Lithograph, hand-colored
Nineteenth Century
French
The George Speaight Archive
The Victoria & Albert Museum





This print depicts a sadly common scene of a man being pick-pocketed while watching a Punch and Judy show.  Hand colored with watercolor, the print was published in Paris by Nöel et Dauty in the mid-to-late Nineteenth Century.  The lithographer is listed as J. Langlumé.

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