Reading the Broadside

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A soldier wearing a shako has climbed onto his companion’s shoulders to read a broadside

Reading the broadside.

Artist

Name:: Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint
Dates:: 1792-1845
Country:: France

Illustration

Subject:: Humor
Technique:: Lithograph
Lithographer:: Delaporte
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: the Getty Research Institute, the Internet Archive

Periodical

Title:: La Caricature, vol. 1
Author:: Collective work
Publisher:: Paris: Aubert, 1831

Description:

A soldier wearing a shako has climbed onto his companion’s shoulders to read a broadside plastered on the wall.

The caption reads in the original French: Lecture de l’affiche.

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