Caricaturana: Oui, Monsieur, moyennant un petit abonnement a notre assurance vous serez assuré de mourir

Caricaturana: Oui, Monsieur, moyennant un petit abonnement a notre assurance vous serez assuré de mourir
Caricaturana: Oui, Monsieur, moyennant un petit abonnement a notre assurance vous serez assuré de mourir

Caricaturana: Oui, Monsieur, moyennant un petit abonnement a notre assurance vous serez assuré de mourir

Date1838
Artist (French painter, printmaker, and sculptor, 1808–1879)
Illustration CitationLe Charivari, November 4, 1838
MediumSingle-color lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 11 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (29.2 × 24.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-431
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThe caption translates to read:

- Yes sir, in exchange for a small premium with our insurance, you can be assured for death....for death in a proper gentlemanly manner. When you go off in a fine hearse, very comfortable, to be mourned by the poor people of the district, and leaving an inconsolable widow in golden letters on your grave....
- And if you don't keep your promises?
- Then you can still give us a receipt and sue us before a tribunal.
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