Updated 28 April 2022
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<Great Exhibition of Industry and Contemporary Hoaxes>: Come in and judge for yourselves! I've directed everything, inspired everything, the Tribunals' galette for the Digest (Aside; and for a difficult digestion) The Physionopilfer which catches the manner of everything! (except the resemblance.) Running bitumen (quite.) Men's shirts for the use of small children of which you glimpse only the (Sham.) Marvellous indestructible hats (which melt in the sun and are diluted in the rain.)Dromedary pommade, so much sought after (by camels.) Fool's seed which you know (all of you.) The English Brewery which froths so well (in the Newspapers.) and the sublime, the classical coal of St. Pétrain which you can put to the test (by fire.)
Date | 1839 |
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Materials and Techniques | lithograph |
Size(cm) | 21.7 x 30.0 |
Inscriptions | Signed on the stone, lower left: h.D.; Unnumbered on the stone |
Standard ref. | Delteil 556, Tobu II-396iii |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.2000-1126 |
Provenance
Peter Morse; Tobu Museum of Art (Tobu Railway Company); Purchased by the NMWA, 2001.
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. 102.