Condamné pour avoir vendu du grès pilé au lieu de cassonnade

Item Information

Title:
Condamné pour avoir vendu du grès pilé au lieu de cassonnade
Title (alt.):
Charivari. Convicted for having sold powdered sand for brown sugar.
Description:
A merchant has been condemned for mixing ground sandstone with brown sugar and selling it. It took until February 24, 1858 until a new law gave way to free enterprise by ending a monopoly from which some 500 meat stalls and butcheries in Paris had benefited for many years.
Donor:
Trustman, Benjamin A., Trustman, Julia M.
Lithographer:
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879
Date:
1855
Format:
Drawings/Illustrations
Location:
Brandeis University Libraries
Collection (local):
Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs
Subjects:
Merchants
France--History--1848-1870
Food adulteration and inspection
Extent:
1 lithograph, b&w, 24.5 x 33.5 cm
Link to Item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10192/3178
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, December 7, 1855.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
Identifier:
LD2765