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Boy thumbing his nose out of a window Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L’Episode de Panouille (1843)

The frontispiece shows Jean-Paul Choppart, the boy the book is about, looking out of a circular stone window and thumbing his nose. He has curly hair. I am not sure that I have the name of the engrav [...]

Keywords: boys, people, windows, cartoons, gestures, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-07

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Title Page Detail: Angel With Whip Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L’Episode de Panouille (1843)

This vignette, or little scene, is on the title page. A winged angel stands amidst two groups of little children. One group, clad in white, have wreaths of flowers round their heads and are praying. [...]

Keywords: children, boys, angels, people, whips, punishments, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2007-02-07

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The boy himself Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L’Episode de Panouille (1843)

A sketch of a curly-haired scruffily-dressed boy with his hands in his pockets, reproduced as a wood engraving.

Keywords: children, people, greyscale

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Added: 2007-05-10

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Beating the boy Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L’Episode de Panouille (1843)

Mr.Choppart takes his son in one hand, and with his other hand the cane (used for loading a musket), made from flexible and supple whalebone. A colleague suggested, “Mr Choppart grabbed his son with [...]

Keywords: punishments, people, children, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-13

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Le marquis de la Galoche Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L’Episode de Panouille (1843)

A girl (I think) with a strange hat, a drum, a guitar, a triangle: a one-man marching band.

Keywords: people, music, musical instruments, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-07

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