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Disadvantage of Trees Surrounding the Stock Exchange
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Disadvantage of Trees Surrounding the Stock Exchange

PortfolioPlate 504 from the series "Actualités"
Daten.d.
MediumCrayon lithograph
DimensionsSheet: 312 × 244 mm. (12 5/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
Image: 245 × 209 mm. (9 5/8 × 8 1/4 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 number1996.48.594
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Last Updated1/11/24
Image Not Available for Desolation of the Cossacks at the stock exchange after the announcement of the Turkish victory.
Desolation of the Cossacks at the stock exchange after the announcement of the Turkish victory.
1854
Image Not Available for Look, the quotations from the stock exchange... are our shares going up? - Right now, the only thing that climbs is the barometer!
Look, the quotations from the stock exchange... are our shares going up? - Right now, the only thing that climbs is the barometer!
1865
Image Not Available for Let's be quite clear. - Bertrand is going to sneak in and out of the groups at the stock exchange and polish up the tarred bitumen shares, he'll make them sparkle, he'll say they're being snapped up, snatched up all round, that they're rising like balloons... As for you, Baron, you have a certain 'savoir faire', go and buy some for 20%, 30%, even 100% more. I've got the whole lot in my wallet, they won't be able to deliver any, we'll sell them for what we like and providence will do the rest. - (Bertrand) Forward march against the dupes, let's cash in... fly... etc.
Let's be quite clear. - Bertrand is going to sneak in and out of the groups at the stock exchange and polish up the tarred bitumen shares, he'll make them sparkle, he'll say they're being snapped up, snatched up all round, that they're rising like balloons... As for you, Baron, you have a certain 'savoir faire', go and buy some for 20%, 30%, even 100% more. I've got the whole lot in my wallet, they won't be able to deliver any, we'll sell them for what we like and providence will do the rest. - (Bertrand) Forward march against the dupes, let's cash in... fly... etc.
1838
Image Not Available for Whatever became of you, Mr. Brown? - I became an unlicensed broker at the Stock Exchange...
Whatever became of you, Mr. Brown? - I became an unlicensed broker at the Stock Exchange...
1848
Image Not Available for Balustrade from the Chicago Stock Exchange
Balustrade from the Chicago Stock Exchange
1893-1894
Image Not Available for View of Rue de la Banque, from the Stock Exchange, February 1878
View of Rue de la Banque, from the Stock Exchange, February 1878
Jean Alfred Taïée
n.d.
Image Not Available for The disadvantage of buying a newspaper that is publishing the news twelve hours before the others. - How come I buy your paper and cannot find the news of today? - Sir, today's news was in yesterday's paper.
The disadvantage of buying a newspaper that is publishing the news twelve hours before the others. - How come I buy your paper and cannot find the news of today? - Sir, today's news was in yesterday's paper.
1848
Image Not Available for The disadvantage of sending a bad painting to the exhibition. - They wrote across my forest! Spinach twelve sous per meter! - And what about me, my magnificent study worthy of Géricault,... they had the audacity to stick this label on it!! This is a horse, don't mistake it for an ass which might confuse it with the author!
The disadvantage of sending a bad painting to the exhibition. - They wrote across my forest! Spinach twelve sous per meter! - And what about me, my magnificent study worthy of Géricault,... they had the audacity to stick this label on it!! This is a horse, don't mistake it for an ass which might confuse it with the author!
1848
Image Not Available for Yes sir, in exchange for a small premium with our insurance, you can be assured for death....for death in a proper gentlemanly manner. When you go off in a fine hearse, very comfortable, to be mourned by the poor people of the district, and leaving an inconsolable widow in golden letters on your grave.... - And if you don't keep your promises? - Then you can still give us a receipt and sue us before a tribunal.
Yes sir, in exchange for a small premium with our insurance, you can be assured for death....for death in a proper gentlemanly manner. When you go off in a fine hearse, very comfortable, to be mourned by the poor people of the district, and leaving an inconsolable widow in golden letters on your grave.... - And if you don't keep your promises? - Then you can still give us a receipt and sue us before a tribunal.
1838
Image Not Available for Robert Macaire bookseller. Ladies and gentlemen, would there be anyone in this pleasant place who'd like to make himself a nice little income, without difficulty and without working?... If there is someone he should stock my primers... You don't have to be a bookseller to be a specialist in this trade, you don't even have to know how to read, quite the contrary!... You only have to pay me a deposit... The bigger the better, as the saying goes.
Robert Macaire bookseller. Ladies and gentlemen, would there be anyone in this pleasant place who'd like to make himself a nice little income, without difficulty and without working?... If there is someone he should stock my primers... You don't have to be a bookseller to be a specialist in this trade, you don't even have to know how to read, quite the contrary!... You only have to pay me a deposit... The bigger the better, as the saying goes.
1836
Image Not Available for The Chevalier des Adrets is the lover of a woman of the world. He is amiable and fervent, he pretends to be passionate and devoted... one day, an alleged bailiff and an alleged bill of exchange fall like a clap of thunder into the midst of the most tender effusion of feeling... "Oh! My God!! The Baron de Wormspire, a so-called friend, has had the impudence to have me thrown into prison... He's ruined my good fortune, separated me from what I love! Oh! Friends!! What are friends?... There's no such thing as a friend!!!..." The poor woman, poor dupe, casts off her jewels, gives him everything she can, borrows, ruins herself, only to discover too late that her knight is only a knight of industry, a right Robert Macaire.
The Chevalier des Adrets is the lover of a woman of the world. He is amiable and fervent, he pretends to be passionate and devoted... one day, an alleged bailiff and an alleged bill of exchange fall like a clap of thunder into the midst of the most tender effusion of feeling... "Oh! My God!! The Baron de Wormspire, a so-called friend, has had the impudence to have me thrown into prison... He's ruined my good fortune, separated me from what I love! Oh! Friends!! What are friends?... There's no such thing as a friend!!!..." The poor woman, poor dupe, casts off her jewels, gives him everything she can, borrows, ruins herself, only to discover too late that her knight is only a knight of industry, a right Robert Macaire.
1838
Image Not Available for Robert Macaire, Hypnotist. This is a perfect subject for hypnosis... There is absolutely no connection between us... I do not know Mademoiselle de St. Bertrand, and you gentlemen, are going to be able to experience the effect of somnambulism.... (In her sleep, Mlle de St. Bertrand gives diagnoses on everybody’s ailments, omdocates hidden underground treasures, gives investment advice conc. the Mozart Paper Co. stocks, in gold mines and in other fine investments.)
Robert Macaire, Hypnotist. This is a perfect subject for hypnosis... There is absolutely no connection between us... I do not know Mademoiselle de St. Bertrand, and you gentlemen, are going to be able to experience the effect of somnambulism.... (In her sleep, Mlle de St. Bertrand gives diagnoses on everybody’s ailments, omdocates hidden underground treasures, gives investment advice conc. the Mozart Paper Co. stocks, in gold mines and in other fine investments.)
1838