Plate 73: A dormant gold mine, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires
A dormant gold mine.
- Ah! We've really made our million but we promised gold and we've only found sand...
- Go on! Exploit your capital, that's our gold mine...
- Yes, but later...
- Later? You'll say I made a mistake, that it's necessary to start again... and you'll set up a company to work the sand.
- Brrr. There're bobbies in the district...
- Bobbies? All the better, they'll take some shares off your hands.
- Ah! We've really made our million but we promised gold and we've only found sand...
- Go on! Exploit your capital, that's our gold mine...
- Yes, but later...
- Later? You'll say I made a mistake, that it's necessary to start again... and you'll set up a company to work the sand.
- Brrr. There're bobbies in the district...
- Bobbies? All the better, they'll take some shares off your hands.
Artwork Details
- Title: Plate 73: A dormant gold mine, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires
- Series/Portfolio: 'Caricaturana'
- Artist: Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois)
- Author: Charles Philipon (French, Lyons 1800–1862 Paris)
- Printer: Aubert et Cie
- Publisher: Aubert et Cie
- Date: 1838
- Medium: Lithograph on wove paper; second state of two (Delteil)
- Dimensions: Image: 9 15/16 × 8 15/16 in. (25.2 × 22.7 cm)
Sheet: 13 5/16 × 10 3/16 in. (33.8 × 25.8 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1953
- Object Number: 53.693.82
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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