Plate 72: Recipe to cure colic, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires
Recipe to cure colic.
- Monsieur Macaire, my good friend, don't make me cancel this performance, I need it desperately!
- Oh my friend, I cannot play, I am in such a pain.
- I beg you, try at least... the public is demanding you.... they are screaming, threatening and will pull out the benches... I will have to take back their tickets. Come now, I will double your salary!
- Oh! Oh! heat some more towels… bring some hot wine and more towels!
- I will triple your salary!
- Keep on heating and beating the towels!
- We'll share the box office receipts!
- Share the receipts? Up with the curtain! The farce has ended and the drama can begin!....
- Monsieur Macaire, my good friend, don't make me cancel this performance, I need it desperately!
- Oh my friend, I cannot play, I am in such a pain.
- I beg you, try at least... the public is demanding you.... they are screaming, threatening and will pull out the benches... I will have to take back their tickets. Come now, I will double your salary!
- Oh! Oh! heat some more towels… bring some hot wine and more towels!
- I will triple your salary!
- Keep on heating and beating the towels!
- We'll share the box office receipts!
- Share the receipts? Up with the curtain! The farce has ended and the drama can begin!....
Artwork Details
- Title: Plate 72: Recipe to cure colic, 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; third state of three (Delteil)
- Dimensions: Image: 9 3/16 × 9 3/16 in. (23.4 × 23.3 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: 53.693.83
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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