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Details
- Other Title
- Don't meddle with it!
- Alternative title
- Ne vous y frottez pas!
- Date
- 1834
- Media category
- Materials used
- lithograph
- Edition
- only state
- Dimensions
- 30.9 x 44.0 cm image; 35.2 x 50.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.l., black ink [inscribed on stone] "H.D.". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Mrs M.V. Evatt 1967
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- DO33.1967
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Honoré Daumier
Works in the collection
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About
Plate 20 published in 'L'Association mensuelle', March 1834.
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.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Nov 1990–27 Jan 1991
Printmaking in the age of Romanticism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Aug 2009–25 Oct 2009
Mary Alice Evatt: Art for the People, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba, 12 May 2018–24 Jun 2018
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Edmund Capon AM, OBE and Jan Meek (Editors), Portrait of a Gallery, Sydney, 1984.
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Nicholas Draffin, Citizen Artist - Daumier and his time, Sydney, 1991, p 6, illus cover page.
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Renée Free, AGNSW Collections, 'The Western heritage, Renaissance to twentieth century', Sydney, 1994, pp 108-172: p 130, colour illus p 130.
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Bruce James, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Western collection: works on paper', Sydney, 1999, pp 78-92: p 82, illus p 82.
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