MARTINET. - Voyage et conduite d'un moribond pour l'autre monde [Caricature Parisienne.]

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Published: Paris, 1820

Size: 193 x 333 mm.

Color: In attactive original colours

Condition: In very good condition, official stamp in ink lower right corner. Lightly age toned, old fixings visible. Mounted.

Description

A 'busy', but sobering print depicting the procession of a dying old man to the afterlife. Attractively coloured. Accompanying the old man on his inevitably journey are a clergyman in front of the procession, followed by a lawyer, an official, a doctor (with large syringe) and man carrying the coffin (undertaker?). A bat flies overhead.
Interestingly, the old man's stirrups look like chamber pots!

150€