Antique Print-PENSEE-PHILOSOPHE-POLITICAL-SATIRE-PARIS-Rosambeau-19th c.

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‘PENSEE D’UN PHILOSOPHE // ON VOIT BIEN QUE LE GOUVERNEMENT DE PARIS NE TRAVAILLAIT PAS POUR SON COMPTE : MAIS POUR LE COMTE DE PARIS.’

– Political satire lithograph criticizing the Paris government for working in favor of the Count of Paris rather than the people. Depicts a caricature of a disheveled man in a patched-up coat with a basket on his back, filled with papers labeled “Ordre” and “Candidature.” He gestures towards political posters while standing over discarded documents.

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Description

Medium: Lithograph with color on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 39.2 x 28.2 cm (15.43 x 11.1 inch). Image size: 39.2 x 28.2 cm. (15.43 x 11.1 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Minor creasing along the edges. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

POLITICAL CARICATURE, SATIRE, PARIS GOVERNMENT, COUNT OF PARIS, 19TH-CENTURY LITHOGRAPH, POLITICAL CORRUPTION, FRENCH POLITICS | EXPO-503 (SATIRE)

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Source: unknown, to be determined.

Reference: Collection Mus?e Carnavalet, Doubles P ? Z series.

Biography engraver: E. Rosambeau (1871- fl.), also known as Morsabeau, was a French lithographer and caricaturist of the period of the Commune.

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Dimensions 28 × 39 × 1 cm

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