Mai, between 1851 and 1855

A girl with flowers in her hair leaning against a low stone wall under a tree, with head tilted to left, looking down, holding flowers in her right hand, the left resting on the handle of a basket on the wall, filled with flowers; tower in background; gold edges to sheet; inlaid impression in a volume half-bound in green cloth-covered boards and green leather, with gold tooling, lettered on spine 'french familiar subjects / in / lithography. / coloured. ' chromolithograph with additional hand-colouring. Date: between 1851 and 1855. Dimensions: Height: 625 mm (volume); Width: 483 mm (volume). Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum.