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L’Epée de Damocles
Honoré Daumier1842
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: L’Epée de Damocles
- Creator: Honoré Daumier
- Date Created: 1842
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed on stone, lower left: “h.D.”
- Set or Series Title: Histoire Ancienne
- Print State: Second of three states
- Object Type: Prints, works of art
- Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
- Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Purchase funds, 1965
- Materials & Techniques: Lithograph on white wove paper. Watermark: No watermark
- Keywords: Damocles, mythology, satire, social satire, swords
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Edition: Published in “Le Charivari” 12 June 1842
- Dimensions: Image dimensions: 213 mm x 199 mm (8.39 in. x 7.83 in.).
- Bibliography: Loys Deltail 935 ii
- Associated People: Created by Honoré Daumier (French, 1808-1879)
- Accession Number: 1965.14.4
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