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Exploitation du suicide: P.2451-1991

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Exploitation du suicide
Caricaturana

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Daumier, Honoré Victorin
Printer: Junca
Publisher: Aubert
Draughtsman: Philipon, Charles (After)

Entities

Categories

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950, transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

19th Century
Production date: AD 1837

Note

No.59 from the series. Published in Le Charivari, 24 July 1837. Text verso (stuck down on card)

School or Style

French

Techniques used in production

Lithography

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: Vous avez raison ma tante, je suis un misérable, un mange tout, un propre-à-rien, je n’ai plus le / sou, je vais me brrruler la cerrrvelle !! - Malheureux ! que dis-tu ? - Oui, je veux mourrrrir !…. / - Non ! non ! je payerai tes dettes, je te donnerai tout ce que j’ai.. ne te tue pas !… - Ma tante, / c’est pour vous obéir car je suis bien las de la vie……. / (Enfoncé la tante !)
  • Location: Sheet lower centre
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Inscription

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.2451-1991
Primary reference Number: 202476
Delteil: 414 I/II
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Audit data

Created: Friday 3 July 2015 Updated: Thursday 2 March 2023 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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