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Honoré Daumier, Aubert, and others

So, you want to meddle with the press!

1832

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So, you want to meddle with the press!

1832

Physical Qualities Crayon lithograph with scraping, Sheet: 336 x 259 mm. (13 1/4 x 10 3/16 in.) Image: 230 x 205 mm. (9 1/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, the Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number 1996.48.3843
Plate 319 from the journal "La Caricature" published on October 3, 1833.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
N.-A. Hazard and Loys Delteil, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre lithographié de Honoré Daumier (Orrouy, Oise: Chez N. A. Hazard, 1904), p. 69, #259.

Loys Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré (Paris: Chez l’auteur, 1925), vol. 20, n. p., #71.

The Daumier Register, http://www.daumier-register.org/, #71.

Inscribed: Inscribed in stone: upper left "La Caricature (Journal) No. 152."; upper right "Pl. 319"; lower center "Ah! tu veux te frotter à la presse!!"; lower right "Daumier."; bottom left "L. de Becquet, rue Furstemberg 6."; bottom right "chez Aubert, galerie véro dodat."

Markings: Collector's stamp: verso, in brown ink "M.I. / LUCAS / COLLECTION" (Lugt 1695c)

Artist

Honoré Daumier

1807–1878

French, 1808-1879
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Publisher

Aubert

2000–2000

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Printer

Becquet

2000–2000

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