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Animal Kingdom: Natural History Cabinet (Règne animal: Cabinet d'histoire naturelle), from La Caricature, plates 265 and 266

Lithographer Becquet French
Publisher Aubert et Cie French
April 18, 1833
Not on view
Lithograph satirizing King Louis-Philippe and his political collaborators by protraying them as animal specimens on display in a natural history museum.

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  • Title: Animal Kingdom: Natural History Cabinet (Règne animal: Cabinet d'histoire naturelle), from La Caricature, plates 265 and 266
  • Artist: J. J. Grandville (French, Nancy 1803–1847 Vanves)
  • Lithographer: Becquet
  • Publisher: Aubert et Cie
  • Date: April 18, 1833
  • Medium: Lithograph, hand-colored
  • Dimensions: Image: 11 1/4 × 14 3/8 in. (28.6 × 36.5 cm)
    Sheet: 14 in. × 20 1/2 in. (35.6 × 52.1 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941
  • Object Number: 41.66(5-1)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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