About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Honoré-Victorin Daumier
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Title
- The Despair of the Butcher. “- Just imagine: Anybody can establish himself as a butcher! Ah! There are moments when I feel like taking my meat chopper and cutting myself in two halves like a simple veal,” plate 458 from Actualités
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Origin
- France
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Date
- 1857
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Medium
- Lithograph in black on buff wove paper, with letterpress verso
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Dimensions
- 214 × 244 mm (image); 255 × 358 mm (sheet)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Charles H. Worcester
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Reference Number
- 1929.676
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/3408/manifest.json
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