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Droleries contemporaines : album de 60 caricatures

Cham, 1819-1879, artist, Vresse, Arnauld de, publisher · 1869 · Paris : Arnauld de Vresse, éditeur · 26 pictures

Droleries contemporaines is an 1869 Paris album of sixty caricatures by the French cartoonist Cham (Amédée de Noé), published by Arnauld de Vresse for a general urban audience of wit-seekers. Its pictures are pen-and-ink comic scenes of Parisian street life, courtrooms, and shopfronts, with hatched shadows, exaggerated faces, and short French captions that a designer could borrow for satirical stagecraft, expressive caricature, and hatched wash shading.

French wit and humor, Pictorial · Caricatures and cartoons

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