Untitled lithograph from the series Les bons bourgeois
- Title:
- Untitled lithograph from the series Les bons bourgeois
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- History of photography
- Creator:
- Daumier, Honoré
- Creation Date:
- 1846
- ID Number:
- RMM08043_bI1_f05_001
- Collection Number:
- 8043
- File Name:
- RMM08043_bI1_f05_001.jpg
- Transcription:
- -Tiens, ma femme, v'lá mon portrait au Daguerréotype que je te rapporte de Paris .... - Pourquoi donc est-ce que tu n'as pas aussi fait faire le mien pendant que tu y était?... égoïste va!...
-Here, my wife, is my Daguerreotype portrait that I brought back from Paris… -Why didn't you have mine done while you were there? ... Get lost, you egoist! - Work Type:
- Materials/Techniques:
- lithographs
- Subject:
- Reception of photography
- Measurement:
- 33.6 x 25 (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- Satirical drawing of a couple, viewed in partial profile from behind, looking at a Daguerreotype of the husband over his open travelling trunk, with caption below. The duo are dressed in drapey, brown clothes, with ruddy cheecks and beaky noses. The image they discuss is very non-descript by comparison.
- Notes:
- The second line of the caption is illegible in this reproduction but is included in the transcription.
Lithographic illustration related to the reception of the daguerreotype. - Cite As:
- Stephan Loewentheil Photograph Collection, #8043. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Stephan Loewentheil Photograph Collection
- Box:
- I-1
- Folder:
- 11
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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