Title:
[Scene relating to financial speculations in California in 1851]
Creator/Contributor:
Cham (Amédée Charles Henri de Noe) (1819-1879), French, artist (artist)
Aubert & Companie (active ca 1851), French, lithographer and publisher (lithographer and publisher)
Date:
[1851]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0456--B
Format:
print on paper: lithograph
26.4 x 35.2 cm.
Content/Description:
Stout man holding paper saying "Action 10,000 FR" stands before older man who is harassed by female allegory of 1851; woman
wearing bonnet with '1851', holds man by neck and beckons towards paper. Road sign displays pun word "Califlourie."
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC): 1851 ôtant le bandeau que 1850 avait mis sur les yeux des actionnaires Californiens. Printed (UC): Actualités;
(UR): 56; (LL): Chez Aubert & C[ompagn]ie, Pl. de la Bourse 29, Paris; (LR): Imp. de Me. Ve. Aubert, 5 r. de l'Abbaye, Paris;
(LL, within image): Cham 192. French national stamp LR. Inscriptions in French.
Subjects:
Manners & customs
Genre/Format:
Allegories;
Cartoons (Commentary);
Lithographs