Paris, Beillet, A., Meryon, Charles, Projet d'encadrement pour le portrait d'Armand Guéraud, Frame for portrait of Armand Guéraud, verso center - stamped, Frame with allegorical representation of the invention and application of the art of printing. Books with titles on the bindings and printer's tools are stacked on top of each other around an empty frame. Under the frame, intended for the portrait of the printer Armand Guéraud, lie a law book and a sword. In a binding at the bottom are, among other things, Chinese characters and hieroglyphs. Meryon took great pains to design the frame, he made fourteen states and continually changed the titles on the books in addition to other details. Striking are some red accents with which the artist experimented., print, prints, height 168 mm, width 130 mm, French, 1821-11-23 - 1868-02-14, print maker, printmaker, 1862 - 1862, third quarter 19th century, paper, papier, etching, etchings, drypoint, dry needle, à la poupée, plaattoon, Work concepti