Etchings of Paris; Title page to the suite; 1852; Etching on brown wove paper; first state; plate: 6 1/2 x 4 15/16 in. (16.5 x 12.5 cm); Prints; Charles Meryon (French; 1821-1868); Charles Meryon was celebrated among artists and collectors alike during the nineteenth century for his etched depictions of Paris. These works combined a documentary eye on the French capital鈥攚hich was then undergoing dramatic transformation from a medieval to distinctly modern city鈥攚ith fantastic details that varied from the whimsical to the morbid