Duplessi-Bertaux (Jean)

the complete suite of 12 plates depicting street vendors in Paris in the early 19th century, the title plate 1 aptly showing a printseller, followed by a rag collector, flower sellers, umbrella and bellow sellers, mattress stuffing carders, water carriers, apple seller, toy seller, tea seller, melon seller, plum seller, and a beggar, all in the characteristically small format preferred by Jena Duplessi-Bertaux (c.1750-1818), earning him the informal title of the ‘Callot of our days’ by his contemporaries,

12 etchings on wove paper, each c.110 x 80 mm. (4 1/4 x 3 1/8 in), large paper copies with wide margins, sheet sizes c.275 x 210 mm. (10 3/4 x 8 1/4 in), each with a pair of binding stitch-holes in the upper margin, slight surface dust and occasional light spotting, [c.f. IFF 39],