Honoré Daumier
(France 1808–1879)
- Title
- So this is all we got ourselves killed for!
- Alternative title:
- C'etait vraiment bien la peine de nous faire tuer!
- Year
- 1835
- Media category
- Materials used
- lithograph
- Dimensions
-
24.5 x 30.0cm
- Credit
- Purchased 1988
- Accession number
- 483.1988
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
The victims of the July Revolution of 1830 (which replaced the Bourbon king, Charles X, with the Citizen King, Louis-Philippe) rise from their graves beside tombstones inscribed ‘They died for Liberty’. Around them they see the same rioting, turmoil and military suppression continuing. In August 1835, the very month that this lithograph was published, laws were passed prohibiting political caricature and ‘La Caricature’ was closed down.
- Bibliography (1)
-
Nicholas Draffin (Australia, b.1943, d.1995) (Author), Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Domain, 1991, 3, 6.
- Exhibition history (2)
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Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 02 Nov 1990–27 Jan 1991.
Printmaking in the age of Romanticism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 06 Aug 2009–25 Oct 2009.
