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Details
- Alternative title
- Pour un pauvre Américain, s'il vous plaît.
- Date
- 1835
- Media category
- Materials used
- lithograph
- Edition
- i of 3
- Dimensions
- 21.5 x 27.8 cm image
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1988
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 482.1988
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Honoré Daumier
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About
Plate 463 published in 'La Caricature', no 222, 5 February 1835.
A blind beggar and his performing dog solicit contributions of money at the ministerial benches. The dog has the features of the diminutive Adolphe Thiers, then Minister of the Interior, and the clue to the beggar’s identity is given by the top hat with cockade. The money was sought to pay America reparations for damage to their fleet during the Napoleonic Wars. King Louis-Philippe carries bags bearing the inscriptions ‘Bank of Amsterdam’ and ‘Bank of America’.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Nov 1990–27 Jan 1991
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Nicholas Draffin, Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Sydney, 1991, p 6.
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