Title
It was worth getting killed for that, really!
1835
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- So this is all we got ourselves killed for!
- Alternative title
- C'était vraiment bien la peine de nous faire tuer!
- Date
- 1835
- Media category
- Materials used
- lithograph
- Edition
- only state
- Dimensions
- 26.2 x 33.2 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1988
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 483.1988
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Honoré Daumier
Works in the collection
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About
Plate 254 published in 'La Caricature', no 251, 27 August 1835.
The victims of the July Revolution of 1830 (which replaced the Bourbon king, Charles X, with the Citizen King, Louis-Philippe) rise from their graves beside tombstones inscribed ‘They died for Liberty’. Around them they see the same rioting, turmoil and military suppression continuing. In August 1835, the very month that this lithograph was published, laws were passed prohibiting political caricature and ‘La Caricature’ was closed down.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Nov 1990–27 Jan 1991
Printmaking in the age of Romanticism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Aug 2009–25 Oct 2009
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Nicholas Draffin, Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Sydney, 1991, pp 3, 6.
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