Unknown (French, 19th century)
"La Charité, S.V.P. Mesdames et Messieurs" ("Charity please, Ladies and Gentlemen")
12 January 1880
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Artist
Unknown (French, 19th century)
- Title "La Charité, S.V.P. Mesdames et Messieurs" ("Charity please, Ladies and Gentlemen")
- Date 12 January 1880
- Medium Pencil with watercolor on paper
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Dimensions
sheet | 12 1/1 x 11 1/8 in.
- Credit line Gift of Eric G. Carlson in honor of Professor Elizabeth C. Childs, 2000
- Object number WU 2000.0239
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Technique
drawing
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Work type
caricature
drawing
The Political Eye: Nineteenth-Century French Caricature and the Mass Media
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/30/2009 - 04/27/2009
Charity, please, ladies and gentlemen. Have pity of a poor bishop reduced to the lowest misery by an impious government.
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