Les comiques sans le savoir : album de 60 caricatures
Les comiques sans le savoir is an 1868 Paris album of sixty caricatures by Cham (Amédée de Noé, 1819-1879), published by Arnauld de Vresse and printed by Imprimerie Maurice Loignon, aimed at a French readership of urban humour. The pictures are pen-and-ink wood-engraved vignettes of Parisian society, with bourgeois gentlemen, shopkeepers and fashionable women shown in caption-driven comic exchanges. A designer could take their economical hatching, expressive caricatured faces and sharp use of setting, such as a sparse street, a stable or a doorway, to suggest character with minimal line.
