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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:French
Title:Les Temps sont durs [Times are hard], Le Charivari, Série polit. 131
Date Made:1833 October 31
Type:Print
Materials:Lithograph
Place Made:Europe
Measurements:Mat: 14 1/4 in x 18 in; 36.195 cm x 45.72 cm; Sheet: 9 3/8 in x 12 1/2 in; 23.8125 cm x 31.75 cm; Image: 9 5/16 in x 10 7/8 in; 23.65375 cm x 27.6225 cm
Narrative Inscription:  Recto: upp. l. (printed in black ink): Série polit. 131; lwr. l.: Chez Aubert, galerie véro dodat.; lwr. ctr.: Les temps sont durs.; lwr. r.: L. de Becquet, rue furstemberg 6.; lwr. r. (in graphite): 15-; Verso: lwr. ctr. (in graphite): 31/10/1833 [written on a sheet of La Charivari]
Accession Number:  MH 1988.20.6
Credit Line:Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Howard P. Vincent (Mary Wilson Smith, Class of 1926)
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

Description:
Man in military uniform presents a marriage document to a pear-shaped man, who stands in front of a closet full of money-bags. Printed on a page from Le Charivari; caricature; military/war; political event/figure

Tags:
money

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