Hotel Saint-Charles

Hotel Saint-Charles  is a beautiful black and white xylograph on paper, realized in 1880 by  A. Deroy .

Original title:   Nouvelle-Orléans: Hôtel Saint-Charles .

Signed  on plate on the lower left margin. Title on plate, on the lower margin at the center.

With an incredible freshness of line and meticulousness of sign, this original print represents the magnificent building of the Hotel Saint-Charles in New Orléans, seen from the perspective of a crowded street.

Mounted on a cream-colored cardboard passepartout, cm 24 x 30, and in excellent conditions, this beautiful modern artwork is an illustration for the  Le Tour du Monde  newspaper. Under the image and on the back, a part of an article of this newspaper. Another little illustration by the same artist appears on the back.