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- Artist
- Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879) - Title
- You take your machine-gun like this, you fire . . . bang . . . it kills ten times more people than the old system . . . - Ah, yes papa, this is what one calls progress. (Tu prends ton fusil à aiguille comme ça tu tires . . . paf . . . ça tue dix fois plus de monde qu'avec le vieux système . . . - Ah! oui p'pa c'est ce que t'appelles le progrès.), number 141 from the series News (Actualités)
- Date
- 1866
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- 11 3/4 x 10 7/16 in. Support
- Credit
- Gift of Helen Wurdemann
- Accession No.
- 1979.52
- Classification
- Prints
- Geography
- France
Related
To 1979, collection of Helen Wurdemann [married name Guzzardi] (Los Angeles); January 1979, gifted to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]
- Delteil, Loys. "Le peintre-graveur illustré, vol. XX-XXIX." Paris, 1906-1926. no. 3515
- Daumier Lithographs: Characters and Caricatures: Chazen Museum of Art, 12/23/2016–2/19/2017
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