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Les échappés de Charenton : album de 60 caricatures

Cham, 1819-1879, Arnauld de Vresse, publisher · 1868 · Paris : Arnauld de Vresse · 22 pictures

Les échappés de Charenton is an 1868 Paris album of sixty caricatures by the French cartoonist Cham (Amédée de Noé, 1819-1879), published by Arnauld de Vresse for a general urban audience. The pictures are pen-and-ink wood engravings with short French captions, showing bourgeois manners in stables, cafés and streets; a designer might borrow their crowded, gesture-led staging and deadpan comic timing for editorial cartoons or period-style spot illustrations.

French wit and humor, Pictorial · French · Manners and customs

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