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Lilliputiens essayant du profiter du sommeil d'un nouveau Gulliver (Lilliputians Trying to Take Advantage of the Sleep of a New Gulliver), from the series Les Actualités
Lilliputiens essayant du profiter du sommeil d'un nouveau Gulliver (Lilliputians Trying to Take Advantage of the Sleep of a New Gulliver), from the series Les Actualités

Lilliputiens essayant du profiter du sommeil d'un nouveau Gulliver (Lilliputians Trying to Take Advantage of the Sleep of a New Gulliver), from the series Les Actualités

Artist/Maker (French, 1808–1879)
Date1850
MediumLithograph
DimensionsImage: 8 1/8 × 10 1/2 in. (20.6 × 26.7 cm)
Sheet: 9 13/16 × 11 3/4 in. (24.9 × 29.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Eugene L. Garbaty
PortfolioLes Actualities (Current Events)
Object number1954.130
Status
Not on view
More Information
At the time of this image’s printing, conservative ministers of the short-lived Republican gov-ernment had just pushed through a bill curbing universal manhood suffrage and disenfranchising a segment of the voting population.
Exhibition History
Satire and Sympathy: Daumier’s Human Comedy
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 6, 1980 - March 9, 1980 )
The Human Comedy: Chronicles of 19th Century France
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 6, 2013 - December 22, 2013 )
Wit and Wisdom: Political and Social Satire in the Prints of Hogarth, Goya, and Daumier
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (July 27, 2022 - December 23, 2022 )
Collections
  • European