Dis-donc, Zidore..., est-ce que ça t'a inquiété souvent, l'impôt sur voitues? [print].

Accession number: 
PML 141321.34
Author: 
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published: 
[Paris] : Mon. Martinet, [1862]
Description: 
1 print : lithograph; image: 255 x 222 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Caption title.
Caption continues: Que t'es bête!...l'impot qui nous frappe, nous--c'est les coups de fouet!
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1862 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
At head of image: Actualités.
Plate numbered "97" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image at lower left; lettered "Lith Destouches, 28, r Paradis Pre Paris" at bottom right.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; the separate issue, without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 34 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Print shows two boys hitching a ride on the tail board of a carriage as the driver aims his whip at them from overhead.

Classification: 
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