Lot no. 58
[WOOD (engraving).
The Inauguration Ceremony of the Universal Exhibition under the Central Dome.
S.l., 1889. - Wood engraving 296 x 448 mm, bleached with ceruse white.
Large woodcut matrix depicting the inauguration ceremony of the 1889 Universal Exhibition, under the central dome of the Champ-de-Mars in Paris.
Almost 50 centimetres long, this engraving consists of two rows of six blocks, each measuring approximately 15 x 8 cm. It bears the signature of Henri Auguste Dochy, who based it on a joint design by Jules Louis Berteault and Emmanuel Joseph Raphaël Orazi.
It was published by Le Monde illustré in 1889.
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