Honoré Daumier
(France 1808–1879)
- Title
- Don't meddle with the press!
- Alternative title:
- Ne vous y frottez pas!
- Year
- 1834
- Media category
- Materials used
- lithograph
- Dimensions
-
30.7 x 43.2cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed l.l., [inscribed on stone] "H.D.". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Mrs M.V. Evatt 1967
- Accession number
- DO33.1967
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
In 1832 Daumier served time in prison for an inflammatory caricature of King Louis-Philippe. Two years later he drew this defiant image of a strong young printer personifying the freedom of the press. On the right hand side we see the fallen King Charles X, attended by foreign monarchs with money bags. On the right hand side the angry figure waving an umbrella is intended for Louis-Philippe.
- Bibliography (4)
-
Ewen McDonald (Australia) (Editor), The Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, Sydney, 1994, 130 (colour illus.).
Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Editor), Jan Meek (Australia) (Editor), Portrait of a Gallery, Sydney, 1984, 82 (illus.).
Nicholas Draffin (Australia, b.1943, d.1995) (Author), Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Domain, 1991, cover (illus.), 6.
Bruce James (Australia) (Author), Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Director), Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, Domain, 1999, 82 (illus.).
- 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.
