The Old Print Shop

Bureau de Remplacemens Militaires. (Caricaturana 28).

  • ARTIST: Honore Daumier

  • PUBLISHER: Published in Album Caricaturana (Les Robert Macaires).

  • MEDIUM: Lithograph,

    DATE: 1838.

  • EDITION SIZE: Image size 9 x 8 13/16" (229 x 224 mm) plus title and margins.

  • DESCRIPTION: Robert-Macaire architecte; Chez Aubert, gal.vero doda; Imp.d'Aubert et de Junca. Caricaturana is a series of 100 lithographs, numbered 1-100. They first appeared in Le Charivari between 1836 and 1838. They also were sold in a bound album format with the title "Les Robert Macaires." Each image was printed on heavy wove paper and was offered uncolored for 45 francs and hand colored for 55 francs. Text below title reads, "Y a Marchandise et Marchandise! voulez-vous un remplacement commun, ca n’vous coutera que 800 fr. – mais j’vous en previens, c’est des filous, des voleurs, ca n’reste pas au regiment, ca s’donne de l’air a la premiere occasion et faut r’joindre… Voulez-vous y mettre 1,500 francs, prenez-moi ca, c’est pas beau, mais c’est bon, ca a des papiers…. tant qu’on en veut! et ca n’bronchera pas du service pendant vos six ans. Bertrand (a part) Compte la d’ssus, Pekin!" <br><br> Translation - "There's merchandise an' merchandise! You wan' a common replacement, that'll cost yer only 800 F., but I warn yer, they're all swindlers, crooks who don't stay with their regiment, who skedaddle at the first opportunity and who 'ave ter be retrieved.... Would yer like ter make it 1'500 F., take that speciment, it ain't handsome but it's of good composition and it's got papers... As many as yer like an' it don't flinch from six years' service. -- Bertrand (aside): You c'n count on it, civilian!"

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Good condition., fine original hand coloring.

  • REFERENCE: DR #382; HD #1017.