print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1918,0629.77
- Title
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Object: Les faux monnoyeurs (The counterfeiters)
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Series: La Caricature
- Description
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Lawyers operating a press striking coins, symbolizing fines imposed on the press; the press is surmounted by a pear, a reference to Louis Philippe; Persil is seen sitting in a pit in the floor, reading 'La Tribune'; fifteenth plate for La Caricature's 'Association mensuelle lithographique'. October 1833
Lithograph
- Production date
- 1833
- Dimensions
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Height: 250 millimetres (image)
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Width: 422 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- 'L'Association mensuelle lithographique' is a special edition of 'La Caricature' created in 1832 by Philipon to cover legal costs. For an extra franc, subscribers to 'L'Association Mensuelle' received an exclusive lithograph printed on white paper.
See also B. Farwell's 'The Charged Image', 1989, cat. No.166, pages 153-154.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: July Monarchy 1830-1848
- Associated titles
Associated Title: La Caricature
- Acquisition date
- 1918
- Acquisition notes
- Unidentified mark, recto, lower left: red, oval stamp (not in Lugt)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1918,0629.77