A French soldier boasts that he and six others have 'evacuated' 300 Mexicans from a square;a military surgeon, holding an enema, counters that he has 'evacuated' many more single-handed. Coloured lithograph by Draner (Jules Renard).

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A French soldier boasts that he and six others have 'evacuated' 300 Mexicans from a square;a military surgeon, holding an enema, counters that he has 'evacuated' many more single-handed. Coloured lithograph by Draner (Jules Renard). Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Set in a hospital ward, with curtains around individual beds. "Mexicans": presumably referring to a pitched battle in a plaza in the French military campaign in Mexico 1861-1866, in support of a Catholic Mexican Empire friendly to France and hostile to the United States

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Paris (14. Boulevart Poissonière) : Dusacq. & C.ie, [1867] (Paris : Imp. Becquet)

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 25.8 x 18.4 cm.

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Civils et militaires ... Dessiné et lith.é par Draner. Draner Lettering continues: -Oui, mon cher, à nous six, nous avons fait évacuer de la place plus de trois cents Mexicains! -V'là t-y pas une affaire;... j'en ai fait évacuer bien pus qu'ca à moi tout seul, et j'en suis pas plus fier. Draner Bears number: 6

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Bibliographie de la France, 20 avril 1867, no. 524 ("Civils et militaires : … Oui, mon cher, à nous six, nous avons fait évacuer de la place plus de trois cents Mexicains ! V'lat'y pas une affaire ..., j'en ai fait évacuer bien plus qu'ça à moi tout seul, et j'en suis pas plus fier. Lith. par Draner. Paris, imp. Becquet ; Dusacq.")--Image of France database no. 85039
Jean Adhémar and Jacques Lethève, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome VII, Paris 1954, p. 73, no. 3 ("Civils et militaires, quatorze pl. chez Dusacq, 1867 : sujets militaires, l'anglais, cycliste et jockey, nourrice et militaire, garde des eaux-et-forêts, danseuse et pompier.")

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Wellcome Collection 16924i

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