print
- Museum number
- 1855,0414.25
- Title
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Object: Fourberie et lâchete sont deux herbes qui ne prendront jamias racine en France
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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 10, a high official, with sword and cockade, walking in a garden in conversation with a gardener who says "deceit and cowardice are two herbs which never take root in France". 1840
Lithograph.
- Production date
- 1840
- Dimensions
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Height: 315 millimetres (image)
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Height: 384 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 223 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.
In original wrapper which incorporates a 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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In light of Michael Driskel's essay , this print could be associated with the campaign for political reform launched on 10 June 1840 (See Driskel, "Singing 'The Marseillaise' in 1840: The Case of Charlet's Censored Prints" in "Art Bulletin", December 1987, Vol XIX, no 4)
According to La Combe, the gardener represented in the image is identifiable as a former soldier.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: La Réforme (Campaign of political reform launched in Paris on 10th June 1840) 1840
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1855,0414.25