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Help, help!...My husband is fighting a bull!
Image Not Available for Help, help!...My husband is fighting a bull!

Help, help!...My husband is fighting a bull!

PortfolioPlate 30 from the series "Pastorales"
Date1845
MediumCrayon lithograph
DimensionsSheet: 328 × 262 mm. (12 15/16 × 10 5/16 in.)
Credit LineThe George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object number1996.48.3868
NOT ON VIEW
Last Updated1/11/24
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Stockholders' assembly. Gentlemen, the monarchist newspaper which I had the honor of founding with the help of your capital and my abilities surpassed my wildest expectations and hopes… it lived two months, devoured only three hundred thousand francs, and in order to have it reappear all we need is a small payment from your side… Bertrand, see the gentlemen to the cashier.
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1842
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Do you want gold, do you want money, do you want diamonds, millions, zillions? Step right up, let us help you... Boom! Boom! Boom-bond-bond!! Here's bitumen, here's steel, here's lead, here’s gold, here's paper, here's galvanizzzeddd iron... Step up, step up quickly, the law will change, you'll lose everything, hurry up, buy, buy your shares! Buy your shares now!! Boom! Boom!! Boom-boom-boom!! Bond! Bond!!
1838
Image Not Available for Tocqueville. Replacement for Monsieur Drouyn de Lhuys. Let us hope that the pince-nez he constantly holds in his hand may help him to have a clear view in foreign affairs.
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1849
Image Not Available for Rash young students who are fighting over a point of honour and who snap their fingers at the supreme court.
Rash young students who are fighting over a point of honour and who snap their fingers at the supreme court.
1845
Image Not Available for How foolish of us to be so frightened, look, it is only a horrid scare crow. - Oh, I thought it was my husband!
How foolish of us to be so frightened, look, it is only a horrid scare crow. - Oh, I thought it was my husband!
1845
Image Not Available for Monsieur Arthur: - Oh Pamela! I am burning with love for you! The husband herbalist: - A mallow... of the family of Malvaceae... a sedative... I don't believe my friend Arthur has this specimen in the herbarium he asked me to build for him.
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1851
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Saint Anthony: Help Me, O My God! (Saint-Antoine: Au secours, mon Dieu!)
1896
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How to Become a Great Mathematician. Monsieur Moutonnet, you have made yet another error in your calculations... copy out for me six times the verb: I have made a mistake in my addition! (Mr. Moutonnet, now furious, answers back with some signs, which really have very little in common with algebra)
1845
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1845
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The husband wants him to look at his hot-bed, the friend only dreams of seeing his wife.
1845
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1842