first edition
by GRÉVIN, Alfred
Paris: Chez les Marchands d'Estampes, 1850. Burlesque Fantasies"
GRÉVIN, A[lfred]. Mono-Organorama. Fantaisies Burlesques. Paris: Chez les Marchands d'Estampes, [ca. 1850].
Folio (13 1/8 x 10 inches; 333 x 254 mm.). Pictorial lithograph title-page and nineteen fantastical lithograph plates.
Publishers' pictorial lithograph pink boards, expertly rebacked with pink cloth. Fore-edge of boards a little chipped.
A rare and early visual satire by Alfred Grévin (1827–1892), Mono-Organorama is a collection of burlesque fantasies presented in the form of twenty lithographic plates. Likely published around 1850, this suite predates Grévin’s more widely known theatrical caricatures and fashion illustrations. The title—playing on the word “organorama”—suggests a comic “one-man band” or a metaphorical instrument through which absurdities of modern life are played out. The imagery often involves whimsical hybrids of machinery and humans, musical absurdity, and grotesque transformations, reflecting early French visual satire in the tradition of Grandville and Daumier.
Grévin would later become celebrated for his costume designs, theatrical caricatures, and for co-founding the
Musée Grévin in Paris, but this publication captures his early flair for fantastical and often mechanical humor.
OCLC/KVK locate just one copy in libraries and institutions worldwide: Art Gallery of Ontario (ON, CA). (Inventory #: 06232)
GRÉVIN, A[lfred]. Mono-Organorama. Fantaisies Burlesques. Paris: Chez les Marchands d'Estampes, [ca. 1850].
Folio (13 1/8 x 10 inches; 333 x 254 mm.). Pictorial lithograph title-page and nineteen fantastical lithograph plates.
Publishers' pictorial lithograph pink boards, expertly rebacked with pink cloth. Fore-edge of boards a little chipped.
A rare and early visual satire by Alfred Grévin (1827–1892), Mono-Organorama is a collection of burlesque fantasies presented in the form of twenty lithographic plates. Likely published around 1850, this suite predates Grévin’s more widely known theatrical caricatures and fashion illustrations. The title—playing on the word “organorama”—suggests a comic “one-man band” or a metaphorical instrument through which absurdities of modern life are played out. The imagery often involves whimsical hybrids of machinery and humans, musical absurdity, and grotesque transformations, reflecting early French visual satire in the tradition of Grandville and Daumier.
Grévin would later become celebrated for his costume designs, theatrical caricatures, and for co-founding the
Musée Grévin in Paris, but this publication captures his early flair for fantastical and often mechanical humor.
OCLC/KVK locate just one copy in libraries and institutions worldwide: Art Gallery of Ontario (ON, CA). (Inventory #: 06232)
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