I want to leave an imperishable monument of our visit to this cliff...

Honoré Daumier1854

This print was published in <em>Le Charivari </em>(October 9, 1854) as plate 2 from the series <em>The Good Bourgeois.</em>

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Title: I want to leave an imperishable monument of our visit to this cliff...
Creator: Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879)
Date Created: 1854
Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 25.7 x 35 cm (10 1/8 x 13 3/4 in.); Image: 20.2 x 26.6 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/2 in.)
Provenance: Frank S. Lahm, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Type: Print
Rights: CC0
External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.723
Medium: lithograph
State of work: II/II
Series: The Good Bourgeois
Inscriptions: Above image, printed: LES BONS BOURGEOIS. / 2 ; Below image, printed: -Je veux laisser un monument impérissable de notre visite à cette falaise..... j'ajouterai aussi votre nom, Adélaïde, le respect que je professe pour le beau sexe / m'en fait un devoir., Lower margin, printed: Maison Martinet, 116, r. Rivoli et 41, r. Vivienne / Lith Destouches, 28, r Paradis Pre. Paris. ; [in pencil]
Department: Prints
Culture: France, 19th century; France, 19th century
Credit Line: Gift of Frank S. Lahm
Collection: PR - Lithograph
Accession Number: 1920.723

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