Plate 28: Conscript replacement agency, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

Aubert et Cie|Charles Philipon|Junca|Honoré Daumier|Aubert et Cie

1838 · Lithograph on wove paper · Drawings and Prints

-There's merchandise an' merchandise! You wan' a common replacement, that'll cost yer only 800 F., but I warn yer, they're all swindlers, crooks who don't stay with their regiment, who skedaddle at the first opportunity and who 'ave ter be retrieved.... Would yer like ter make it 1'500 F., take that speciment, it ain't handsome but it's of good composition and it's got papers... As many as yer like an' it don't flinch from six years' service. - Bertrand (aside): You c'n count on it, civilian!"

Artist

Aubert et Cie|Charles Philipon|Junca|Honoré Daumier|Aubert et Cie

Date

1838

Medium

Lithograph on wove paper

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1953