Eugene Rimmel, signed Cheret, a lithographic advertising fan with priced lists of Rimmel's Choice Perfumery and Fancy Articles including fans: surprise bouquet, plain wooden fans for painting, pocket fans etc., the verso with a Programme for Mr. Frederick Younge's London Company organised for the representation of T.W. Robertson's comedies School and Castle, published by Cheret 8 rue Brunel (Tenes-Paris) with wooden sticks - 9in. (23cm.), circa 1865; and seven chromolithographic fans: one signed B. Lachelin of a cat drinking champagne advertising Cafe de la Paix; another advertising Aspirine Usines du Rhone; another Cafe Weber; Cinzano map no. 7 of France, published by Bondel; another Pre Catalan; another signed P.-P. Guingault, published by Ganne; and another with a view of The Tuilleries (8)

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Eugene Rimmel, signed Cheret, a lithographic advertising fan with priced lists of Rimmel's Choice Perfumery and Fancy Articles including fans: surprise bouquet, plain wooden fans for painting, pocket fans etc., the verso with a Programme for Mr. Frederick Younge's London Company organised for the representation of T.W. Robertson's comedies School and Castle, published by Cheret 8 rue Brunel (Tenes-Paris) with wooden sticks - 9in. (23cm.), circa 1865; and seven chromolithographic fans: one signed B. Lachelin of a cat drinking champagne advertising Cafe de la Paix; another advertising Aspirine Usines du Rhone; another Cafe Weber; Cinzano map no. 7 of France, published by Bondel; another Pre Catalan; another signed P.-P. Guingault, published by Ganne; and another with a view of The Tuilleries (8)

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Jules Cheret (born Paris 1836, died Nice 1933) considered the Father of the Poster, lived in England between 1856 and 1866 where he studied chomolithography. He met Rimmel at that time. Backed by Rimmel between 1866 and 1881 he published posters in three colurs. In 1881 he sold his studio to Chaix but remained its artistic director

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