“- Madame Prudhomme, let's not hurry, let's recall that dignity should preside over all acts of life... dignity alone distinguishes man from the rest of the animals,” plate 2 from Croquis Aquatiques, 1854
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Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, India, etc., c. 1859
George Baxter
“- You are not wearing a Talma yet? - No, I remain loyal to the overcoat, it's more flattering to my waistline,” plate 1 from Les Bons Parisiens, 1852
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Jean-Charles Persil, Modeled c. 1832–35, cast 1929–30
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“- The Court, having weighed the evidence and apportioned the advantage accruing from the dereliction, abrogates the appeal and all similar procedures, discharges the appellant and amends the judgement of the lower Court in respect to the costs of th respondent, with the exception of a forfeiture payment to Advocate Bizotin in respect of the final judgement, and hereby dismisses both parties as aforementioned. - My God, what a verdict..... my lawyer will ask for at least seventy five francs to explain this to me.....,” plate 4 from Les Gens De Justice, 1845
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Mr. Baill.., plate 312 from Célébrités de la Caricature, 1833
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“What idiots! You paint a religious picture for them and they laugh.... they don't even have a devotion to art!...,” plate 4 from Croquis Pris Au Salon par Daumier, 1865
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“- Finally we obtained the division of property between husband and wife... - about time, there was no more money left to divide,” plate 3 from Les Avocats Et Les Plaideurs, 1851
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Marie Louise Charlotte Philippine Pairie, prostitute, licensed by the police, 1835
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A Boat Maneuver, plate nine from Les Canotiers Parisiens, 1843
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Félix Barthe, Modeled c. 1832/35, cast 1929/30
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The Touch, plate 42 from Types Parisiens, 1839
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At the Deligny Baths. - The ladder at 4 p.m., plate 33 from Croquis D'été, 1858
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Pierre-Paul Royer-Collard, Modeled c. 1832–35, cast 1929–30
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Military Costumes: Sapper (Fireman), Surgeon and Canteen Manager; Grenadier (Musketeer, Infantryman), n.d.
Victor Jean Adam
Open air exhibition of provincials coming to Paris to see the palace of industry, plate 31 from L'Exposition Universelle, 1855
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The danger of wearing hoopskirts during a sudden spring storm, plate 26 from La Crinolomanie, 1857
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Untitled, 1851
Victor Jean Adam
“- If you only knew how pretty you are!... Pretend you are playing! - stop it.. DO - You don't love me!...SO - I'll' always be yours. ... MI,” plate 6 from Les Musiciens De Paris, 1841
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The Embroiderer. An example of the errors, nature sometimes makes in labeling the sexes. Just as one sees the would-be women who wear pants, some kind of a moustache, who play a cornet or the bass-viol, or who compose humanitarian novels, in the same way one finds men who play the harp, hemstitch neckerchiefs, do embroidering with their hands, and, who in a case of emergency know how to do a little cooking, plate 2 from Monomanes, 1840
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