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Va faire chez les Grecs admirer ta fureur. Va, je la désavoue et tu me fais horreur!!

Print
1841 (produced)
Artist/Maker
D'Aubert & Cie. (printers)
La Caricature (published)
Charivari (published)
Daumier (artist)
Place of origin
france (printed and published)

Black and white lithograph print depicting a man and a women, both looking appalled to see one another


Object details

Categories
Prints
Caricatures & Cartoons
Satire
Object type
Print
Titles
  • Va faire chez les Grecs admirer ta fureur. Va, je la désavoue et tu me fais horreur!! (generic title)
  • Va faire... admirer ta fureur (alternative title)
  • Physionomies Tragiques et Classiques (series title)
Materials and techniques
Lithograph print
Paper
Lithograph
Brief description
Lithograph print by Honoré Daumier entitled "Va faire chez les Grecs admirer ta fureur. Va, je la désavoue et tu me fais horreur!!", No.3 from the series "Physionomies Tragiques et Classiques", French, 1841
Physical description
Black and white lithograph print depicting a man and a women, both looking appalled to see one another
Dimensions
  • Height: 311.15mm (Note: Taken from the departmental circulation department 1948)
  • Width: 228.6mm (Note: Taken from the departmental circulation registration 1948)
Marks and inscriptions
Inscriptions on top centre and top right corner read "Physionomies Tragico-Classiques" and "No.3" (Bottom left corner: "Chez Aubert gal. Vero-Dodart" Bottom right corner: "Imp. d'Aubert & Cie" Far bottom centre: "Sevend Chez Bauger & Cie, Editeurs des Dessins de La Caricature du Figaro et du Charivari, Rue de Croissant, 16")
Translation
Centre bottom inscription reads "Va faire chez les Grecs admirer ta fureur. Va, je la désavoue et tu me fais horreur!!", "(Andromaque)", which roughly translates to "Let the admire your fury"; translation found in Digital Commonwealth, Massachusetts Collection Online's website
Bibliographic reference
Taken from the departmental circulation registration 1948
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
CIRC.316-1948

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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