* Reproductive portraits after a drawing by Gustave Boulanger, prints by Crispijn van de Passe, Jaspar Isaac, Michel Lasne and Jules Hebert, a bronze by Pierre-Jean David d'Angers, a painting by Rabel and anonymous photographs. Subjects include Agrippa d'Aubigne, Louis Bizeul, Evariste Boulay-Paty, Benjamin Fillon, Nivelle de la Chaussee, Rene Goulaine de Laudonniere, Casmir Leconte and Francois Viete.  Other subjects include chessmen, books and a lynx.  Some prints include the artist's monogram.
<ul><li>S. P. Avery Collection.</li>
<li>The states are listed according to Harold Wright's updated edition of Loys Delteil, Catalogue raisonne of the etchings of Charles Meryon.  Other catalogs list states differently.</li>
<li>Title devised by cataloger.</li>
<li>Admission is granted through application to the Office of Special Collections.</li>
<li>DW77 bears inscription in graphite by artist "A mon ami a Roger Casimir Lecomte."  DW86 bears inscription in graphite by artist describing the state.</li>
<li>DW79, DW80, DW82, DW83 and DW84 were published in Poitou et Vendee by Benjamin Fillon and O. Rochebrune.</li>
<li>Forms part of Samuel Putnam Avery Collection.</li>
<li>Gift of Samuel Putnam Avery, 1900.  DW84 bears collector's mark of Phillipe Burty (Lugt 413)</li>
<li>Holdings checked in departmental copy of Loys Delteil and Harold Wright, Catalogue raisonne of the etchings of Charles Meryon.</li>
<li>Printed by Beillet.</li>
<li>Citation/Reference: DW 83(V/V)</li></ul>
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