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Background imagePlay On Words Collection: Le Constitutionnel Napoléonien, 1848. Creator: Honore Daumier

Le Constitutionnel Napoléonien, 1848. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le Constitutionnel Napoleonien, 1848. Le constitutionnel se mettant heroiquement a la tete du corps Franc recrute rue de Valois et rue de Poitiers pour soutenir la cause du Prince Louis

Background imagePlay On Words Collection: Tiens, ce n'est rien que des peintures!... 1855. Creator: Honore Daumier

Tiens, ce n'est rien que des peintures!... 1855. Creator: Honore Daumier
Tiens, ce n'est rien que des peintures!... 1855. Pun on the French word toile which can mean canvas or cloth. - Tiens, ce n'est rien que des peintures

Background imagePlay On Words Collection: Mon cher ami, je viens sans cérémonie.. 1838. Creator: Honore Daumier

Mon cher ami, je viens sans cérémonie.. 1838. Creator: Honore Daumier
Mon cher ami, je viens sans ceremonie.. 1838. Mon cher ami, je viens sans ceremonie vous demander a diner'. (My dear friend, I have come without ceremony to ask you for dinner)

Background imagePlay On Words Collection: La Présidente criant à tue-tête: Mesdames!... 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier

La Présidente criant à tue-tête: Mesdames!... 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
La Presidente criant a tue-tete: Mesdames!... 1844. La Presidente criant a tue-tete: Mesdames!vous violez formellement l'article 3 de notre reglement...lequel porte que les academiciennes ne

Background imagePlay On Words Collection: Fichtre!...que ces êtres-là sont sciants!, 1839. Creator: Honore Daumier

Fichtre!...que ces êtres-là sont sciants!, 1839. Creator: Honore Daumier
Fichtre!...que ces etres-la sont sciants!, 1839. Man tripping over sawn logs: Damn!...how clever these things are!'. Pun on the French word sciant which can mean surprising or sawing

Background imagePlay On Words Collection: Vous avez la parole, expliquez-vous, vous êtes libre!, 1835. Creator: Honore Daumier

Vous avez la parole, expliquez-vous, vous êtes libre!, 1835. Creator: Honore Daumier
Vous avez la parole, expliquez-vous, vous etes libre!, 1835. Play on words - parole can also mean word in French, so the judge is saying: You have parole/you may speak, explain yourself

Background imagePlay On Words Collection: Les Écuries d'Augias, 1842. Creator: Honore Daumier

Les Écuries d'Augias, 1842. Creator: Honore Daumier
Les Ecuries d'Augias, 1842. The Augean Stables. Se faire recureur, pour un heros superbe, C'est, par Hercule, un gout difficile a chanter

Background imagePlay On Words Collection: Oedipe chez le Sphinx, 1842. Creator: Honore Daumier

Oedipe chez le Sphinx, 1842. Creator: Honore Daumier
Oedipe chez le Sphinx, 1842. Oedipus and the Sphinx. Ce vilain animal a tete d'antiquaire, Lui dit: Pourquoi, monsieur, ne faut-il pas compter Sur une pyramide

Background imagePlay On Words Collection: Dites donc, not'maire... des communistes qué qu'c'est ça?, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier

Dites donc, not'maire... des communistes qué qu'c'est ça?, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Dites donc, not'maire... des communistes que qu'c'est ca?, 19th century. Pierre: Tell me mayor, what are communists

Background imagePlay On Words Collection: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, San Francisco, 1938. Creator: Unknown

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, San Francisco, 1938. Creator: Unknown
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, San Francisco, 1938. Was he a thief? Answer that for yourself after you have seen - "The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse" - By Barre Lyndon - Alcazar [Theatre]'

Background imagePlay On Words Collection: An Enquiry Concerning the Clock Tax, 1797. Creator: Charles Ansell

An Enquiry Concerning the Clock Tax, 1797. Creator: Charles Ansell
An Enquiry Concerning the Clock Tax, 1797. British Prime Minister William Pitt writes with a tax pen'; on his list are Shoe Strings, Knee Strings, Hair Strings'

Background imagePlay On Words Collection: 'Angler' - Saxons in Ireland, 1891. Creator: Unknown. 'Angler' - Saxons in Ireland, 1891

"Angler" - Saxons in Ireland, 1891. Creator: Unknown. "Angler" - Saxons in Ireland, 1891
"Angler" - Saxons in Ireland, 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891

Background imagePlay On Words Collection: Comment! encore une caricature sur nous.. 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier

Comment! encore une caricature sur nous.. 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
Comment! encore une caricature sur nous.. 1844. Comment! encore une caricature sur nous, ce matin, dans le Charivari!...ah! jour de ma vie! J'espere bien que cette fois c'est la derniere

Background imagePlay On Words Collection: Adieu, ma chère Flora...ne manquez pas.. 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier

Adieu, ma chère Flora...ne manquez pas.. 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
Adieu, ma chere Flora...ne manquez pas.. 1844. Adieu, ma chere Flora, ne manquez pas d'adresser au bureau du journal deux exemplaires de vos bulles de savon et je ferai mousser cela dans mon

Background imagePlay On Words Collection: Monsieur veut-il des crêpes?.. 1855. Creator: Honore Daumier

Monsieur veut-il des crêpes?.. 1855. Creator: Honore Daumier
Monsieur veut-il des crepes?.. 1855. Monsieur veut-il des crepes?...- Ca doit etre un ancient croque-mort!'. Waiter: Would Monsieur like pancakes

Background imagePlay On Words Collection: Landscape: Lake Biwa, Edo period, 18th century. Creator: Maruyama Okyo

Landscape: Lake Biwa, Edo period, 18th century. Creator: Maruyama Okyo
Landscape: Lake Biwa, Edo period, 18th century. A visual play on the name biwa, a Japanese stringed instrument. The sketch exaggerates the lute-like shape of the lake

Background imagePlay On Words Collection: The Pitt Fall, January 1789. Creator: Frederick George Byron

The Pitt Fall, January 1789. Creator: Frederick George Byron
The Pitt Fall, January 1789. Formerly attributed to Thomas Rowlandson

Background imagePlay On Words Collection: A Small Scotch from Oban, 1934. Creator: Unknown

A Small Scotch from Oban, 1934. Creator: Unknown
A Small Scotch from Oban, 1934. Child in traditional Scottish kilt - play on words

Background imagePlay On Words Collection: Two New Slides for the State Magic Lantern, December 29, 1783. December 29, 1783

Two New Slides for the State Magic Lantern, December 29, 1783. December 29, 1783
Two New Slides for the State Magic Lantern, December 29, 1783

Background imagePlay On Words Collection: John Nash on the spire of All Souls Church, Langham Place, Westminster, London, 1824

John Nash on the spire of All Souls Church, Langham Place, Westminster, London, 1824
Nashional taste!!!; 1824; showing the architect John Nash spiked by the seat of his trousers on the spire of All Souls Church, Langham Place, St Marylebone, Westminster, London

Background imagePlay On Words Collection: The origin of Cockney, London, c1800

The origin of Cockney, London, c1800; a well-to-do provincial family arrive in London. One of the children notices a cock neighing


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