I Smoke and Cry for My Sins (Je fume en pleurant mes péchés)

Louis1815

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Title: I Smoke and Cry for My Sins (Je fume en pleurant mes péchés)
Creator: Louis
Date Created: 1815
Signatures / Inscriptions: Inscribed in plate, center bottom: “JE FUME EN PLEURANT MES PÉCHÉS”; inscribed in plate, lower left: “Se vend à Paris, chez Genty, rue St Jacques no.14”; inscribed in plate, lower right: “Déposé au Bureau des Estampes”; inscribed in pen on verso, top left: “10”; inscribed in pencil on verso, center bottom: “30”
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: http://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/Obj17423
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Friends of the Davison Art Center Circle 50 funds, 2013
Materials & Techniques: Etching with hand coloring on wove paper
Keywords: exile, islands, Napoleon I, politics, rats, satire
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: Published, with hand coloring, by Jean Baptiste Genty, Paris, on 28 October 1815.
Dimensions: Image dimensions: 282 x 218 mm (11.1 x 8.58 in.). Plate dimensions: 341 x 243 mm (13.43 x 9.57 in.). Sheet dimensions: 460 x 301 mm (18.11 x 11.85 in.).
Associated People: Created by Louis (French, active 1815)
Accession Number: 2013.7.2

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