Accession number
PML 141357.2
Creator
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879.
Published
Paris : Maison Martinet, [1852]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from head of plate.
The first and only plate in a projected series which was not continued by the artist; originally published in Le Charivari, Jun. 26, 1852. Cf. Hazard & Delteil.
At foot of plate: "Maison Martinet ... Imp. Ch. Trinocq."
Numbered "1" at upper right.
The first and only plate in a projected series which was not continued by the artist; originally published in Le Charivari, Jun. 26, 1852. Cf. Hazard & Delteil.
At foot of plate: "Maison Martinet ... Imp. Ch. Trinocq."
Numbered "1" at upper right.
Description
1 print : lithograph ; sheet: 335 x 253 mm
Provenance
Bookplate of Michael Sadleir; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Caricature with two half page designs at top and bottom of sheet; at top, a portly man dining at table with a maid standing at left and caption: Le dejeuner du patron; at bottom, a thin and famished looking man at his desk cutting into a small of food, with caption: Le sixième clerc prenant sa pitance.
Binding
1/4 black sheep.
Classification
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