Four satirical vignettes. In the first vignette, marianne, the symbol of france, sits at a gambling table, spending the workers' pensions. In the second vignette a crowd gathers around a hole in a parisienne street. A uniformed guide tells the crowd of tourists that the hole was empty in august 1909, full by september and empty again in october. One man photographs it with his camera. In the third vignette, a couple buys theater tickets for which the price has been broken down into shares for the author, director and others. In the fourth a visitor to the louvre tells a seated guard that someone has shot paintings in the salon carré, to which the guard disinterestedly replies not to worry because the paintings are behind glass. Date: circa 1909. Dimensions: 20.1 x 44.4 cm.. Medium: crayons, drawing, india ink, ivory. Collection: Library of Congress. La Revue Comique par Jehan Testevuide, no. 25-28
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