Updated 28 April 2022
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<Ancient History>: (18) Today's witticism. What is Diogenes doing with a lantern? / Said the elegantly turnd-out Dandies to themselves. / Sirs, I am looking for a man, and with my slow, dim eye. / I can't see him; said he: those words really annoyed them (Attempt at poetry by Mr. de Rambuteau)
Date | 1842 |
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Materials and Techniques | lithograph, newsprint paper |
Size(cm) | 24.5 x 19.3 |
Standard ref. | Delteil 942 (iv/iv), Tobu I-294 |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.2000-0448 |
Provenance
Peter Morse; Tobu Museum of Art (Tobu Railway Company); Purchased by the NMWA, 2001.
Exhibition History
- 1997
- Honore Daumier Caricatures from the Tobu Collections: Eyewitness of an Epoch, Tobu Museum of Art, 25 January 1997 - 11 February 1997, no. 111
Bibliography
- 2002
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 35 (Apr. 2000-Mar. 2001), 2002, Takahashi, Akiya. New Acquisitions. pp. 14-15, List of New Acquisitions. p. 57.