A wealthy doctor counting money. Lithograph.

Date:
1845
Reference:
16616i
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A wealthy doctor counting money. Lithograph. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Possibly an antisemitic caricature. However, the 'ordonnance' (a familiar sight in caricatures from the July Monarchy) perched next to a gun, surrounded by signs of wealth and culture, perhaps indicates the corrupt domination of the bourgeoisie around this time, three years before the revolution

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[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1845.

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1 print : lithograph

Lettering

La girouette dit le grand docteur. Ordonnances. 1845. loc

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Wellcome Collection 16616i

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