Rodolphe Bresdin

The Good Samaritan; also titled Abdel el-Kader secourant un chrétien (Abdel el-Kader aiding a christian), 1861

Lithograph on white chine collé on white velin.

Van Gelder 100-2; Becker “first state;” Préaud 29 “first state”

Printed very early in the first edition before any defects appear in the stone

entire image

dromedary

iguana

monkeys

ferns & waterfowl

trees 1

trees 2

clouds

Jerusalem or Damascus