Caricaturana: Voulez-vous de l’or...

Caricaturana: Voulez-vous de l’or...
Caricaturana: Voulez-vous de l’or...

Caricaturana: Voulez-vous de l’or...

Date1838
Artist (French painter, printmaker, and sculptor, 1808–1879)
Illustration CitationLe Charivari, May 20, 1838
MediumSingle-color lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 12 × 9 5/16 in. (30.5 × 23.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-416
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThe caption translates to read:

Do you want gold, do you want money, do you want diamonds, millions, zillions? Step right up, let us help you... Boom! Boom! Boom-bond-bond!! Here's bitumen, here's steel, here's lead, here’s gold, here's paper, here's galvanizzzeddd iron... Step up, step up quickly, the law will change, you'll lose everything, hurry up, buy, buy your shares! Buy your shares now!! Boom! Boom!! Boom-boom-boom!! Bond! Bond!!