ARTIST: Honore Daumier
PUBLISHER: Published in Album Caricaturana (Les Robert Macaires)
MEDIUM: Lithograph,
DATE: 1838.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 8 x 10 7/8" (203 x 277 mm) plus title and margins.
DESCRIPTION: Ch.Ph.invt. H.D.lith; Chez Aubert, gal. vero-dodat; 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, "Exemple : Vous achetez un procede nouveau, n’importe quoi, bon ou mauvais, vous l’achetez 600 f. – 500 f. 25 francs, le moins possible! Vous creez 500,000 f. d’actions, le plus possible! Vous faites des annonces-monstres, des affiches-monstres, des promesses-monstres, vous realisez le capital, vous l’empochez, vous mettez ensuite la cle sous la porte, vous deposez votre bilan, c’est-a-dire le bilan de la societe……… Le tour es fait et vous passez a un autre."<br><br> Translation - "Here's an example. Buy a new process, it doesn't matter which, or whether it's good or bad, buy it for 600F, 500F, 25F, for as little as possible. Create 500'000F worth of shares, as many as possible. Make out monster advertisements, monster posters, monster promises. Make the capital, pocket it, put the key under the door, file your bankruptcy papers, that's to say the company's papers... that's the end of that little game. You then go on to another."
ADDITIONAL INFO:
CONDITION: Good condition, save a small stain in the upper right margin corner. Fine original hand coloring.
REFERENCE: DR #377; HD #1012.
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