Humour Collection (page 9)

Qu'allons-nous devenir, Seigneur dieu? qu'est ce qui soutiendra le pauvre monde... 1836. Qu'allons-nous devenir, Seigneur dieu

L'Abbé Loup en pauvre Contrebandier, 1833. Creator: Honore Daumier
L'Abbe Loup en pauvre Contrebandier, 1833. Abbe Loup as a poor Smuggler. Loup is the French word for wolf, here punned with Louis. From Bal de la Cour

Mr. Royer Colas en vieille Marquise de l'ancienne cour, 1833. Creator: Honore Daumier
Mr. Royer Colas en vieille Marquise de l'ancienne cour, 1833. Monsieur Royer Colas as an elderly marchioness of the old court. From Bal de la Cour, plate i

Un Nouveau Nez, 1833. Creator: Honore Daumier
Un Nouveau Nez, 1833. A pun on the French for newborn - nouveau ne - which rhymes with nez - nose. From Series politique

V'la, v'la l'coco! il est frais... 1833. Creator: Honore Daumier
V'la, v'la l'coco! il est frais... 1833. V'la, v'la l'coco! il est frais - tu nous embetes avec to coco, nous n'en voulons plus'. Woman: Get your hot cocoa!'

Au Fait! C'est un bal assez distingué!, 1833. Creator: Honore Daumier
Au Fait! C'est un bal assez distingue!, 1833. Actually! it's quite a distinguished ball!'. From Serie Politique

Le Printemps à Paris, 1856. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le Printemps a Paris, 1856. Spring in Paris. Et dire que je viens me commander deux pantalons blancs!'. And to think that I've just ordered two pairs of white trousers!'. From Actualites

C'est dommage que ma chasse à moi soit fermée, 1867. Creator: Honore Daumier
C'est dommage que ma chasse a moi soit fermee, 1867. It's a pity that my hunt is closed to me. From Actualites

Project de Parlement d'été soumis à l'Europe par le CHARIVARI... 1868. Creator: Honore Daumier
Project de Parlement d'ete soumis a l'Europe par le CHARIVARI... 1868. Summer Parliament project submitted to Europe by the CHARIVARI. From Actualites

Cossacks on the love path, c.1814-c.1815. Creator: Adrien Pierre François Godefroy the Younger
Cossacks on the love path, c.1814-c.1815. Les Cosaques en Bonne fortune'. Russians meet French women

Le Général Schlagmann, s'imaginant que le costume donne du courage... 1859. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le General Schlagmann, s'imaginant que le costume donne du courage... 1859. Le General Schlagmann, s'imaginant que le costume donne du courage

The dentist, 1748-1798. Creator: Willem Joseph Laquy
The dentist, 1748-1798

Auction of the Cupids, 1799. Creator: Johann Heinrich Ramberg
Auction of the Cupids, 1799

The Lovers, 1799. Creator: Johann Heinrich Ramberg
The Lovers, 1799

The Auction House: The Dealers, 1863, printed 1920. Creator: Charles Maurand
The Auction House: The Dealers, 1863, printed 1920

Train de plaisir de Paris à St-Germain... 1852. Creator: Honore Daumier
Train de plaisir de Paris a St-Germain... 1852. Train de plaisir de Paris a St-Germain - Wagon de deuxieme classe. Excursion train from Paris to St-Germain: Second class carriage

Le Docteur cherchant querelle à Ratapoil, 1851. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le Docteur cherchant querelle a Ratapoil, 1851. The Doctor quarreling with Ratapoil. Daumier's character Ratapoil (Ratskin) was one of Louis-Napoleon's agents-provocateurs

La Note ou la Vie, 1850. Creator: Honore Daumier
La Note ou la Vie, 1850. The Money or your Life. Maniere delicate don't s'y prennent les Anglais pour reclamer une dette a un people ami

Messieurs...il nous reste un 43me toast à porter à la Société de Temperance!, 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
Messieurs...il nous reste un 43me toast a porter a la Societe de Temperance!, 1844. Gentlemen...we still have a 43rd toast to make to the Temperance Society!'. From Les Philanthropes du jour

L'Empereur Nicolas travaillant dans son cabinet, 1850. Creator: Honore Daumier
L'Empereur Nicolas travaillant dans son cabinet, 1850. Tsar Nicholas working in his office (ie attacking a map of France with his sword). From Actualites

Marche funèbre!!... 1855. Creator: Honore Daumier
Marche funebre!!... 1855. Funeral march!! Two men carrying a pile of items labelled Refuse - (Rejected). From L'Exposition Universelle

Entrez Messieurs...Voici de magnifiques paletots que je vends a perte... 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
Entrez Messieurs...Voici de magnifiques paletots que je vends a perte... 1844. Entrez Messieurs...Voici de magnifiques paletots que je vends a perte...je les fais confectionnes pour donner de

Le jaune d'oeuf n'a pas été assez battu... 1846. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le jaune d'oeuf n'a pas ete assez battu... 1846. Le jaune d'oeuf n'a pas ete assez battu... Je suis sur que votre cousin le pompier est venu

Blumauer's Aeneide, 1789. Creator: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
Blumauer's Aeneide, 1789. From almanac: Konigl. Grosbritannischer Historischer Genealogischer Calender, 1790. Aloys Blumauer's Vergils Aeneis travestirt (1783)

Finissez donc...je n'aime pas qu'on dise des bêtises... 1838. Creator: Honore Daumier
Finissez donc...je n'aime pas qu'on dise des betises... 1838. Oh do stop...I can't stand listening to nonsense...From Croquis d'expressions

La Visite au salon, 1847. Creator: Honore Daumier
La Visite au salon, 1847. The Visit to the Salon. Decidement, tous les sculpteurs sont des polissons!...(Father, dragging his children out of an exhibition: Clearly, all sculptors are jokers)

Vesin, 1849. Creator: Honore Daumier
Vesin, 1849. French politician caricatured as Vezin de Macao due to his bald head and incomprehensible speeches. From Les Representans Representes (Representatives Represented)

Ainsi donc, mon ami à vingt-deux ans vous aviez déjà tué trois hommes... 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
Ainsi donc, mon ami a vingt-deux ans vous aviez deja tue trois hommes... 1844. Ainsi donc, mon ami, a vingt deux ans vous aviez deja tue trois hommes...quelle puissante organisation

The Show-man, 1799. Creator: Monogrammist J.A
The Show-man, 1799. Keep your eye close to the Glass - and you will see a large / vide place full of Death and Destruction - where more / plagues await de frequenters den contained in de famous Box

Boy secretly takes a puff of a cigar held by a man looking at sheet music, c.1900-c.1950. Creator: Mat
Boy secretly takes a puff of a cigar held by a man looking at sheet music, c.1900-c.1950. A Quiet Draw - barefoot street urchin on an accordion and bowler-hatted man

March showers, 1839. Creator: Victor Adam
March showers, 1839. Fantaisies: Les Giboulees de Mars'. Fashionably dressed persons are hit by hailstones

Smell, 1684-1756. Creator: Martin Engelbrecht
Smell, 1684-1756. With caption in Latin and German. Odoriferi atque fragrantes Flores obiectant, herba tamen Tobaci nasum reficit magis meum (They object to odoriferous and fragrant flowers)

Richesse et misère ou rien qu'un, 1818. Creator: Louis Maloeuvre
Richesse et misere ou rien qu'un, 1818. (Wealth and Misery or Nothing but One). A thin man stands holding a thread; is he repairing his shirt which hangs on the chair

Men trying on wigs, 1800-1805. Creator: Jacob Smies
Men trying on wigs, 1800-1805. A frenologist is looking for the right wig at a wig maker's shop. A large group of so-called scientists watches

She is my wife, not my daughter, 1827. Creator: Henry Bonaventure Monnier
She is my wife, not my daughter, 1827. Madame est mon epouse et non ma fille'. A gentleman with his young wife in a hat shop where she tries on a hat in front of a mirror

Man receives account for stupidities, 1826. Creator: Henry Bonaventure Monnier
Man receives account for stupidities, 1826. Le payement des sottises'. Scene in London: A man receives the bill for his stupidities/nonsense from a messenger or bailiff. Print no

Cartoon about rent increases brought in by the Commune of Paris, 1871, (c.1871). Creator: Leo Scherer
Cartoon about rent increases brought in by the Commune of Paris, 1871, (c.1871). A bewildered and furious tenant is presented with news of rent increases

Woman teases her lover, 1827-1828. Creator: Francis Conscience
Woman teases her lover, 1827-1828. " Jules est-tu drole comme ca!'. (Jules, you're so funny like that!). A young woman puts her lace cap on the head of her loved one

Esquisses Parisiennes, (Parisian Sketches), 1827-1828. Creator: Francis Conscience
Esquisses Parisiennes, (Parisian Sketches), 1827-1828. A reserved man is greeted exuberantly by an excited man. He arrive donc farceur, nous sommes deja au champagne

Fantasy uniform and armament for female grenadier, 1831. Creator: E. Morisseau
Fantasy uniform and armament for female grenadier, 1831. Compatriotes 1iere Legion. Grenadier au grande tenue / Ce corps est specialement affecte au service de nuit

Interior with bird concert, 1620-1715. Creator: Cornelis Saftleven
Interior with bird concert, 1620-1715. Possibly by Cornelis Saftleven

Interior with cat concert, 1620-1715. Creator: Cornelis Saftleven
Interior with cat concert, 1620-1715. Possibly by Cornelis Saftleven

Men fighting, 1837. Creator: Clément Pruche
Men fighting, 1837. Ce sont des amis! Je les connais! Laissez-les faire! Il's s'expliquent!!'. (They're friends! I know them! Leave them be! They're discussing it!!)

Allegory of society, 1777. Creator: Jan Brandes
Allegory of society, 1777. A series of 6 performances about the (freedom) tree. A series of 3 performances about a flower that is being defecated

Rebuses, designed by Charles H. Bennett, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Rebuses, designed by Charles H. Bennett, 1857. A rebus is a kind of word puzzle which uses pictures to represent words or syllables. From "Illustrated London News", 1857

The Lambeth Election: the Hustings at Kennington, 1857. Creator: Unknown
The Lambeth Election: the Hustings at Kennington, [London], 1857. The nomination took place...at the Triangle, Kennington-park...Mr

The Finsbury Election: the Hustings on Clerkenwell-Green: the Nominations, 1857. Creator: Unknown
The Finsbury Election: the Hustings on Clerkenwell-Green: the Nominations, 1857. At the close of the poll at four o'clock at least 10

The cheated wife, 1830-1831. Creators: Anon, Nicolas-Louis Delaunois, Martinet Hautecoeur
The cheated wife, 1830-1831. Woman with a child on her lap, waiting for the return of her husband, who kisses another woman in the corridor outside

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