Plate 14: Robert Macaire bookseller, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires
- If you like we'll set up a bank!... but a real bank. With a capital of hundreds of millions, with thousands of millions of shares. We'll smash the Bank of France, we'll sink the bankers, the charlatans... we'll beat everyone!
- Yes, but what about the police?
- Don't be silly, Bertrand. Whoever heard of a millionaire being arrested?
Artwork Details
- Title: Plate 14: Robert Macaire bookseller, 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
- Printer: Junca
- Date: 1838
- Medium: Color lithograph on wove paper; second state of two (Delteil)
- Dimensions: Image: 10 1/8 × 8 11/16 in. (25.7 × 22 cm)
Sheet: 13 7/16 × 10 3/16 in. (34.1 × 25.9 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1953
- Object Number: 53.693.107
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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