Description:
interior, bookshelf at left, window at back, papers drying on lines strung across room, men, some in uniforms and robes, break up the workplace attacking presses and pressmen, and tearing papers, three men attack woman dressed as Liberty, one putting his hand over her mouth
Label Text:
L'Association Mensuelle Lithographique was a portfolio of twenty-four lithographic caricatures produced between 1832 and 1834 by artists associated with Charles Philipon and the illustrated weekly, La Caricature, which he founded in 1830. In his announcement of the publication of these works, Philipon stated that his objective was to solicit for monthly subscribers to the portfolio in order to build a reserve fund to pay the fines he regularly incurred for publishing satirical prints against the king, Louis-Philippe, and members of his government, known as the July Monarchy. While there were alternating periods of openness and repression of printed journalism during this period, Louis-Phillipe's government was particularly hostile to political caricatures such as those printed in La Caricature or Philipon's related weekly, Le Charivari. The brutality of the situation is the subject of this print by Grandville, which depicts government agents (many of them recognizable as members of Louis-Philippe's cabinet) storming the pressroom. The king himself, seen on the left, is attacking and muffling the figure of Liberty of the Press (seen wearing the typical "tricolor" hat symbolic of the Republicans).
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