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Ah Mayeux! Mayeux!! chian li li li!...
J. Grandville. Lith. de Langlume.
On s'abonne chez Aubert, Galerie Vero Dodat [Paris, n.d., c.1832].
Lithograph with hand colouring, sheet 270 x 360mm. 10½ x 14¼".
Children chasing a rather freakish man dressed in female clothes (in the manner of 'Little Bo Peep') out of town. Monsieur Mayeux was a fictional hunchback character created by Charles Traviès, who depicted a series of his 'Aventures'. For the Paris periodical 'La Caricature'. Under the regime of Charles X until the Revolution of 1830 the political caricature was prohibited by censorship. In November 1830 Charles Philipon (1800 - 1862) started publishing 'La Caricature', devoted to political satire. In 1832 he published the 'Charivari' with his brother-in-law Gabriel Aubert, with whom he founded the famous publishing house Maison Aubert.
[Ref: 24286] £60.00
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Carte vivante du Restaurateur. Une Oie. Et un Lapin.
Panneuier Lith d'apres grandville. Lith de Delaporte.
Ches Aubert, E.eur du J.al la caricature galerie véro dodat. [n.d., c.1830.]
Hand coloured lithograph with large margins. Sheet size: 280 x 365mm (11 x 14¼"). Paper toning. Top left corner missing.
Plate 5 from Jean Grandville's series 'Carte vivante du Restaurateur' (You Are What You Eat). Originally published in the early 1830s the prints are from a folio printed for the French pharmaceutical company 'Laboratoires Robert et Carriére' as a gift for clients in the mid 1900s.
[Ref: 36184] £75.00
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Les Métamorphoses du Jour No 31. Concert vocal.
J. Granville. Lith le Langlume.
chez Bulla Rue St. Jacques No.38 et chez Martinet rue du Coq [n.d., 1829-30].
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 170 x 210mm (6¾ x 8¼").
A choir of a duck, two bulls, a cockerel and another male bird are accompanied by a bull on piano and monkey on a violin, all in human clothes. 'Les Métamorphoses du Jour' was so successful that, before the series was completed, Bulla and Martinet decided to publish an edition titled in both French and English.
[Ref: 53376] £160.00
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Les Métamorphoses du Jour No 25. [Dancing Lesson.]
J. Granville. Lith le Langlumé.
chez Bulla Rue St. Jacques No.38 et chez Martinet rue du Coq [n.d., 1829-30].
Coloured lithograph. Printed area 170 x 210mm (6¾ x 8¼"). Some spotting.
A stag dancing master with a violin gives lessons to a pair of dogs and two huge female grasshoppers, all in human clothes. 'Les Métamorphoses du Jour' was so successful that, before the series was completed, Bulla and Martinet decided to publish an edition titled in both French and English.
[Ref: 53377] £80.00
(£96.00 incl.VAT)
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