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Building castles in the air.
Public Domain

Honoré Daumier, Edouard Bouvenne, and others

Building castles in the air.

1846

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Building castles in the air.

1846

Physical Qualities Crayon lithograph with scraping and hand coloring, Sheet: 355 × 272 mm. (14 × 10 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number 2001.338
Frederick Mulder, London; William Ivins, New York.
Sona Johnston, BMA (Jacobs Gallery 3), "Honoré Daumier and the Art of Caricature," 19 November 2003 - 21 March 2004.

Signed: 1

Inscribed: RECTO: in matrix: UC: 'Les BONS BOURGEOIS.'; URC: 'No. 36.'; LWRC: 'Un chateau en Espagne.' LRQ: 'H.D.955'; 'Chez Aubert & Cie. Pl. de la Bourse.'; painted in brown around the margins: 'E Bouvenne /modele/ 16 mars/ 1847'; VERSO: graphite: BLC: 'F#4784'; BC: 'Delteil 1512 ii/II'

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