* S. P. Avery Collection.
<ul><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 the states differently.</li>
<li>Title from Loys Delteil and Harold Wright, Catalogue raisonne of the etchings of Charles Meryon.</li>
<li>Two prints bear inscriptions, possibly by the artist, DW10 in graphite and DW11 in ink.</li>
<li>Admission is granted through application to the Office of Special Collections.</li>
<li>Charles Meryon's earliest works include these experimental reproductive prints, mostly of animal or marine scenes, after Karel Dujardin, Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, Adriaan van de Velde and Reinier Zeeman.  Subjects include views of Haarlem, Musee du Louvre, Oceania, Pont-Neuf, Saint-Denis, the Seine and Vlissingen.  Other subjects include asses, boats, cows, horses, sheep, swine, towers, watermills and villages.  One print is present in two states.</li>
<li>Forms part of Samuel Putnam Avery Collection.</li>
<li>Gift of Samuel Putnam Avery, 1900.  DW10 bears collector's mark of an unidentified French collection (Lugt 160)</li>
<li>Holdings checked in departmental copy of Loys Delteil and Harold Wright, Catalogue raisonne of the etchings of Charles Meryon.</li>
<li>Copy, in reverse, of the etching by Reinier Nooms (called Zeeman).</li>
<li>Citation/Reference: DW 16(I/II)</li></ul>
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