print
- Museum number
- 1855,0414.22
- Title
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Object: Homme du désert? quoi! tu reposses la civilisation!
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Series: Croquis a la manière noire; sujets philosophiques, populaires, moraux, politiques, critiques, civils, religieux et militaires 1840
- Description
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Plate no 7, in a desert landscape, a soldier tries to attract the attention of an Arab who turns his back on him; the soldier extols the virtues of such "admirable institutions" as offices, taxes, customs and censorship in France. 1840
Lithograph.
- Production date
- 1840
- Dimensions
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Height: 310 millimetres (image)
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Height: 384 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 215 millimetres
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Width: 254 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Part of an album published by Gihaut frères in 1840 and dedicated to the Bonapartist poet and song-writer Béranger.
For further reading see See also, Driskel, "Singing 'The Marseillaise' in 1840: The Case of Charlet's Censored Prints" in "Art Bulletin", December 1987, Vol XIX, no 4.
In original wrapper which incorporates cover illustration (see La Combe 966); all lithographs are mounted on sheets of approximately the same size as the wrapper (545mm x 367mm).
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According to La Combe the scene is set in the French campaign in Algeria.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: French campaign in Algeria 1834-1847
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1855,0414.22
