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A riddle: Several mad-looking fellows in a white cotton bonnet shaped like a pear...take a guess! It's the middle way

A riddle: Several mad-looking fellows in a white cotton bonnet shaped like a pear...take a guess! It's the middle way
(Enigme: Plusieurs têtes de fous dans un bonnet de coton blanc formant la poire...devinez! C'est le juste milieu)
(1831)
published in La Caricature, no. 80 by Aubert, Paris

Medium
lithograph

Measurements
24.0 × 21.9 cm (image) 34.0 × 25.8 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Nicholas Draffin, 1995

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
de Vinck 12.355

Inscription
printed in ink above image u.c.: La Caricature (Journal) / No (o in supercript above .) 80
printed in ink above image u.r.: Pl. 161.
printed in ink below image l.c.: Enigme
printed in ink below image l.l.: Plusieurs têtes de fous dans un bonnet de coton blanc formant la / poire...devinez! / c'est le juste milieu
printed in ink below image l.l.: Lith de Becquet, rue Childebert No (o in superscript above .) 9t.
printed in ink below image l.r.: On s'abonne chez Aubert, galerie vèro dodat.
inscribed in pencil (in image) l.l.-l.r.: Louis. Barthe. C: Perrier. Soult. D'argout.

Accession Number
1995.686

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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