Description:
fieldstone floor, part of a stone archway at back; large striped cat with man's head in center, holding small figure with crown under proper right paw and reaching for man in cap and wood shoes with other paw, bowl with money at left, dead rooster behind it under a stool, small rat with man's head at back right leaning on a newspaper with CHART... printed across top
Label Text:
This image was published "sur blanc" in the journal, "La Caricature" no .235 (pl. 489). Louis Philippe has the deposed Charles X under one paw and a peasant wearing a tri-colour threatened with the other. Theirs is caricatured as a bestial rat. The Coq of France is dead and in front of it sits a beggar's bowl filled with money, perhaps alluding to the money Thiers and Louis-Philippe tried to raise to repay American for shipping losses sustained in the Napoleonic Wars.
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