Album, [ca. 1830-1855].

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Album, [ca. 1830-1855].

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This collection of 198 distinct French candy wrapper have images depicting a wide variety of subjects, including transportation, scenery, buildings, animals, and historical and fictional people. Some include rebuses. Apparently printers' proofs, some sheets are uncut and include labels with [catalog?] numbers on them. French candy wrappers of this type were popular during the first-half of the nineteenth century for packing and entertainment. The wrapper imagery--ranging from historicism to exoticism to courtship--reflects the vast scope of visual culture that was popular in France during the nineteenth-century. These French candy wrappers were likely used by stationers to show confectioners what types of wrappers could be purchased to package confections. Many of the wrappers have been mounted on brown paper and/or labeled with an inventory number and price per gram or grosse. Printers and stationers worked in conjunction with each other to print, publish, and peddle the wrappers to confectioners and to the public. Although most wrappers were intended as candy packaging, some were purchased to create makeshift toys. Some images are still attached to their original sheet. The wrappers feature hand-colored and hand-varnished lithographs. Some of the varnish is crackling. It is likely that some of the images were transferred to the lithographic stone using an anastatic printing process, although more thorough analysis needs to be completed to determine the printing processes each wrapper represents. Given the second-quarter of the nineteenth-century life spans of the artists associated with the wrappers, the costume that some of the wrappers feature, the dates that are on some of the wrappers, and the way some of the wrappers were printed, the wrappers were printed between 1830 and 1855.

1 v. (98 p. with 198 images on 129 sheets) : chiefly col. ill. ; 30 cm.

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