La Fourmi

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Artist/Maker	Imprimerie Lemercier Et Cie (Printers) Honorè Daumier (artist)
Place of origin	paris (printed and published)

Hand coloured lithograph print by Honorè Daumier depicting a dishevelled looking elderly man in a long trenchcoat and top hat, walking down a windy street, with an umbrella under his left arm and a large crowd of people gathering by the bank 'Caisse D'Epargne' behind him.

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Categories	Prints Caricatures & Cartoons
Object type	Print
Title	La Fourmi (popular title)
Materials and techniques	Hand coloured lithograph print Paper Lithograph
Brief description	Lithograph print entitled "La Fourmi" by Honoré Daumier, No. 1 of the series "Cours d'Histoire Naturelle", French, 1837
Physical description	Hand coloured lithograph print by Honorè Daumier depicting a dishevelled looking elderly man in a long trenchcoat and top hat, walking down a windy street, with an umbrella under his left arm and a large crowd of people gathering by the bank 'Caisse D'Epargne' behind him.
Dimensions	Height: 285.75mm (Note: Taken from the departmental circulation registration 1948) Width: 228.6mm (Note: Taken from the departmental circulation registration 1948)
Content description	Building in the background of print has the words "Caisse D'Epargne" written on it which is a semi-cooperative banking group founded in 1818 in France
Marks and inscriptions	Text in french underneath the illustration; see image in CMS Inscriptions also include: artist initials, title, publiser, printer and publication (Top centre: “Cours d'Historie Naturelle, No. 1” Print on the bottom left: "H Daumier" At lower left: “ `a Paris, Chez Dupin, Galerie Colbert” At lower right: “Im. de Lamercier Benard et Cie” Bottom centre: “La Fourmi”)
Subject depicted	Bank
Bibliographic reference	Departmental Circulation Register 1948
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	CIRC.303-1948

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1036242/la-fourmi-print-honorè-daumier/

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