Femme de la Province de Chieti. Roy.me de Naples

Lithographic printing and publishing firm, set up by François Séraphin Delpech (1778-1825) in 1818 (the authorisation to set up his own press was given on 16 June 1818). At the beginning of the 19th-century, François-Séraphin Delpech ran the most popular lithographic print shop in Paris. Delpech not only made beautiful lithographic prints from his own designs, but printed lithographs after designs by other artists, and sold these prints in his shop. Vernet’s print shows the front of Delpech’s shop, with potential buyers looking over the new work, while a young man exits the shop carrying a lithographic stone on his head. After his death the business was continued by his widow, who signed as Veuve Delpech from 1825. Closure date not yet ascertained but the Bibliographie de la France records prints issued by Veuve Delpech until 1842. Succeeded by Rosselin. Any lithograph printed and/or published by the firm is entered under the single heading. He issued various 'Albums Lithographiques' between 1819 and 1825 with prints by different artists: these are very rare.