La chronique du jour : album de soixante caricatures
La chronique du jour is a French album of sixty caricatures published in Paris in 1866 by Arnauld de Vresse and drawn by the humorist Cham (Amédée de Noé, 1819-1879), aimed at a general readership of Parisian satire. The pictures are loose, hatched pen-and-ink vignettes of everyday urban scenes: a cloaked man with a walking stick facing a seated woman, a restaurant table with a waiter and diners, and a fashionable couple before a framed picture. A designer could draw on their economical line, exaggerated gesture and lively crowd staging for comic editorial illustration.
