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Sont ils bons de se presser comme ça, il y aura de la place pour tout le monde [print].

Accession number
PML 141321.58
Creator
Darjou, Alfred-Henri, 1832-1874.
Published
[Paris] : Mon. Martinet, [1862]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
At head of image: Actualités.
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1862 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
Plate numbered "146" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image; lettered "Lith Destouches, 28, r Paradis Pre Paris" at bottom right.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; issued separately "sur blanc", without the text on the verso.
Cartoon referring to the Greek head of state referendum of 1862.
Comprises plate 58 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Description
1 print : lithograph; image: 253 x 210 mm; sheet: 355 x 272 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a Greek soldier in traditional uniform in the foreground at left, holding a document over his arm which reads, "Constitution de la Grece"; at right, a long and winding line of people rush towards a throne labeled "Trone de Grece", visible in the background at left.
Classification
Department