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Qui veut rire? : album de 60 caricatures

Cham, 1819-1879 · 1860 · Paris : Arnauld de Vresse · 20 pictures

A French album of sixty caricatures by Cham (Amédée de Noé, 1819-1879), published in Paris by Arnauld de Vresse in 1860 for a general audience seeking satirical amusement. The pictures are pen-and-ink comic vignettes of bourgeois and fashionable Parisian figures in crowded interiors, with gestures and expressions carrying the joke; a designer might borrow their loose hatching, exaggerated poses and economical staging for character-driven humour.

French wit and humor, Pictorial · Caricatures and cartoons

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