Updated 28 April 2022
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<ROBERT MACAIRE.> 2nd Series: (8) Dramatic farce. Steady on! — Steady on!... don't raise the curtain, I'm not performing... — (The director, hastening, frightened) You're joking, my dear Macaire, you're joking, aren't you? — Not at all, not at all... I won't act... — You won't play a similar trick at the theatre, on the author, on your poor comrades... — Brrrrt! you don't keep to your engagements, [so] I break mine, give me the forfeit... — I don't keep to my engagements!! — No, you should pay me ready cash, and you owe me... — What? — You owe me 75 centimes.
Date | 1841 |
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Materials and Techniques | lithograph |
Size(cm) | 20.1 x 25.6 |
Inscriptions | Unsigned; Unnumbered on the stone |
Standard ref. | Delteil 873, Tobu II-407ii |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.2000-1138 |
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. 103.