- Ah! ciel voila qu'il dévorent tous mes choux.... j'ai acheté des lapins pour m'en faire trois mille livres de rentes, et ce sont eux qui vivent comme s'ils avaient trente mille francs de revenus!...

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Title:
- Ah! ciel voila qu'il dévorent tous mes choux.... j'ai acheté des lapins pour m'en faire trois mille livres de rentes, et ce sont eux qui vivent comme s'ils avaient trente mille francs de revenus!...
Title (alt.):
- Good heavens! they are eating away all my cabbage.... I bought these rabbits so they would bring me an income of three thousand Francs and now they live as if they had revenues of thirty thousand Francs!.... Charivari
Description:
A man's rabbits have eaten all of his cabbage crop, ruining his chances at a profit.
Donor:
Trustman, Benjamin A., Trustman, Julia M.
Lithographer:
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879
Date:
1845
Format:
Drawings/Illustrations
Location:
Brandeis University Libraries
Collection (local):
Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs
Subjects:
Gardens
Plants
France--History--Louis-Philip, 1830-1848
Country life in art
Rabbits in art
Extent:
1 lithograph, b&w, 36 x 24.5 cm
Link to Item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10192/1770
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.
Contact host institution for more information.
Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
2nd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, November 25, 1845.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
Identifier:
LD1415