Honoré Victorin Daumier. 1808-1879.
Ils brûlent, ces gros-lą, ils brûlent!
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Chauds les gros! Chauds!...
(They scorch these big ones, they burn!
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Big hot ones! Hot!)
1868. Lithograph. Hazard 3673.iii/iii (with letters). Not in Delteil 3673. 9 1/2 x 8 7/8 (sheet 11 3/4 x 11 3/4). Series: Actualités, (News of the Day), plate 222. Published in Le Charivari November 14, 1868. Text: lower left: A.de Vresse, R. Rivoli 55 lower right: Lith Destouches R.Paradis Pre. 28. Vertical and horizontal folds; sheet trimmed. Initialed in the stone, lower left. $17
Old Father Time, carryng his scythe, is shakes smoking bombs in a large pan. In the smoking clouds are written, 'Roman Question, Foreigh Question, Eastern Question, Roman question, Austrian question," that were"burning" issues.
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