THE ETCHINGS OF CHARLES MERYON THE ETCHINGS OF CHARLES MERYON BY CAMPBELL DODGSON, M.A., C.B.E. KEEPER OF THE PRINTS AND DRAWINGS AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM EDITED BY GEOFFREY HOLME PUBLISHED BY “THE STUDIO,” LTD., LONDON MCMXXI _Printed by Herbert Reiach, Ltd., 9 King Street, Covent Garden, London. Photogravure plates engraved and printed by A. Alexander & Sons, Ltd., 15 Westmoreland Place, City Road, London._ CONTENTS ARTICLES Page Introduction 1 Early Life 3 The Early Etchings 6 The Etchings of Paris 8 Other Etchings of the ’Fifties 20 The Late Etchings 22 List of Meryon’s Etchings 24 LIST OF ETCHINGS REPRODUCED.[1] Plate Charles Meryon. By Félix Bracquemond 9 × 5-7/8 in. 1 Titre des Eaux-fortes sur Paris (D.17), 6-1/2 × 4-15/16 in. 2 Dédicace à Reynier Nooms, dit Zeeman (D.18), 6-15/16 × 2-3/4 in. 3 Ancienne Porte du Palais de Justice (D.19), third state 3-7/16 × 3-3/8 in. 4 Armes Symboliques de la Ville de Paris (D.21), third state, 5-3/8 × 4-3/8 in. 5 Le Stryge (D.23), eighth state, 6-3/4 × 5-1/8 in. 6 Le Petit Pont (D.24), fifth state, 10-1/4 × 7-1/2 in. 7 L’Arche du Pont Notre-Dame (D.25), third state 6 × 7-3/4 in. 8 La Galerie Notre-Dame (D.26), third state, 11-1/8 × 6-15/16 in. 9 La Rue des Mauvais Garçons (D.27), third state, 5 × 3-7/8 in. 10 La Tour de L’Horloge (D.28), third state, 10-5/16 × 7-1/4 in. 11 Tourelle de la Rue de la Tixéranderie (D.29), second state, 9-3/4 × 5-3/16 in. 12 Saint-Etienne-du-Mont (D.30), fifth state 9-3/4 × 5-1/8 in. 13 La Pompe Notre-Dame (D.31), ninth state, 6-3/4 × 9-7/8 in. 14 La Petite Pompe (D.32), second state, 4-1/4 × 3-1/8 in. 15 Le Pont-Neuf (D.33), eighth state, 7-3/16 × 7-1/4 in. 16 Le Pont-au-Change (D.34), second state, 6-1/8 × 13-1/16 in. 17 Le Pont-au-Change (D.34), ninth state, 6-1/8 × 13-1/16 in. 18 L’Espérance (D.35), (Vers destinés à accompagner Le Pont-au-Change), 2-1/2 × 5 in. 19