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Courrier de Paris : album de soixante caricatures

Cham, 1819-1879, artist · 1866 · Paris : Arnauld de Vresse, éditeur · 22 pictures

Courrier de Paris is a collection of sixty caricatures by the French artist Cham, published in Paris in 1866 by Arnauld de Vresse for a general audience of French readers. The pictures are pen-and-ink street scenes with hatched shading, showing well-dressed Parisians in top hats and crinolines in gestures of gossip, flirtation and bargaining, a loose, sketchy line a designer could borrow for witty editorial spot illustration.

French wit and humor, Pictorial · Caricatures and cartoons

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library