ENFLAMMANT LE COURAGE DE SES COSAQUES. - Il sera distribué aux plus braves des chandelles d'honneur!

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Title:
ENFLAMMANT LE COURAGE DE SES COSAQUES. - Il sera distribué aux plus braves des chandelles d'honneur!
Title (alt.):
Charivari. KINDLING THE COURAGE OF HIS COSSACKS. -Distribution of candles of honor to the bravest!
Description:
Parisian newspapers reported that the Cossacks were awarded wax-candles by their officers for bravery in the field, which they enjoyed eating.
Donor:
Trustman, Benjamin A., Trustman, Julia M.
Lithographer:
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879
Date:
1854
Format:
Drawings/Illustrations
Location:
Brandeis University Libraries
Collection (local):
Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs
Subjects:
Conversation pieces
Soldiers
France--History--1848-1870
Cossacks
Extent:
1 lithograph, b&w, 25.5 x 36.5 cm
Link to Item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10192/2866
Terms of Use:
Copyright restrictions may apply. For permission to copy or use this image, contact the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department, Brandeis University Libraries. The following credit line must be included with each item used: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs, Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University.
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
2nd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, April 3, 1854.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
Identifier:
LD2476