Caption continues: ... Et a moi sur le Quai des Morfondus.
At head of sheet: L'Artiste.
Lettered with title below image.
Soft ground etching, with line and roulette, after Gavarni; published in the journal L'Artiste, 5e série, tome 4, 6e livr., p. 96; a copy, reduced in scale, of a lithograph by Gavarni originally published in Le Charivari, Feb 5, 1848, as plate no. 5 of the suite entitled Des mères de famille (see Armelhault & Bocher 1080), the original caption reading: Si tu veux réussir ici, sois gracieux pour le gilet blanc que voilà et pour le gilet de velours, qui est l'ami du gilet blanc ...
Mounted onto bound album leaf measuring 371 x 280 mm.
Comprises plate 53 of a bound volume of published suites and individual plates by Gavarni (PML 141260).
Print shows two men closely engaged in conversation at a party.