Figures and vignettes: above, a swineherd tending pigs and a herd of cows, below, peasants hauling a carved stone on a pushcart and sportsmen and hussars riding horses. Coloured chalk lithograph by the Becquet brothers after V. J. Adam, 1853.

  • Adam, Victor, 1801-1866.
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1853
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40174i
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Figures and vignettes: above, a swineherd tending pigs and a herd of cows, below, peasants hauling a carved stone on a pushcart and sportsmen and hussars riding horses. Coloured chalk lithograph by the Becquet brothers after V. J. Adam, 1853. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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"La foire aux idées" was a phrase used in 1848-1849 to describe the abundance of utopian and revolutionary ideas proposed in printed media, theatre etc. during the political and social changes in France in those years. Here it seems to mean a collection of ideas for artistic compositions that Adam and his viewers couold reuse in other artistic works

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Paris : Monrocq frères

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; sheet 29.9 x 23.2 cm

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La foire aux idées, par V. Adam. Lettering within the print: V. Adam Bears number; 68

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Not found in the Bibliographie de la France, but earlier and later plates in the same series were registered there in 1853

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Wellcome Collection 40174i

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