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  • Title: The Fire (L’incendie)
  • Creator: Alphonse Legros
  • Date Created: 1876 or earlier
  • Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower left: “A. Legros”
  • Print State: Probably ninth of nine states
  • Object Type: Prints, works of art
  • Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
  • Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of Juwil C. and Virgil W. Topazio (B.A. Wesleyan 1943), 1984
  • Materials & Techniques: Etching on thin wove paper
  • Keywords: fire
  • Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
  • Edition: Published in the deluxe edition of “L’Art” 15 October 1876
  • Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 240 mm x 273 mm (9.45 in. x 10.75 in.). Sheet dimensions: 264 mm x 305 mm (10.39 in. x 12.01 in.).
  • Bibliography: Bliss 144; Kovler, “Forgotten Printmakers,” cat. 609
  • Associated People: Created by Alphonse Legros (French, 1837-1911)
  • Accession Number: 1984.29.72

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