Etching and aquatint on cream wove paper, 1879. 241x350 mm; 9x13 7/8 inches, full margins. Ninth state (of 9). Signed and dedicated "à mon ami--Dargaud--" in pencil, lower right, and annotated with printing and paper notes in pencil, lower center. With the artist's red ink stamp (Lugt 977, lower right recto). A superb, dark, richly-inked impression. Bourcard/Goodfriend 128.
