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With Reason or Without

PortfolioPlate 3 from the series "Los Desastres de la Guerra (Disasters of War)"
Date1810-1814, published 1906
MediumEtching and aquatint
DimensionsSheet: 230 × 338 mm. (9 1/16 × 13 5/16 in.)
Plate: 160 × 220 mm. (6 5/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
Credit LineBlanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object number1956.167.1
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Last Updated1/11/24
Image Not Available for El sueño de la razon produce monstrous (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters)
El sueño de la razon produce monstrous (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters)
1799
Image Not Available for El Sueño de la razon produce monstruos (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters)
El Sueño de la razon produce monstruos (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters)
1799, printed later
Image Not Available for Un caballero espanol en plaza quebrando rejoncillos sin auxilio de los chulos (A Spanish mounted knight in the ring breaking short spears without the help of his assistants)
Un caballero espanol en plaza quebrando rejoncillos sin auxilio de los chulos (A Spanish mounted knight in the ring breaking short spears without the help of his assistants)
1816, printed 1855 or later
Image Not Available for Voltaire (Liberty, Reason)
Voltaire (Liberty, Reason)
1989
Image Not Available for House of Reason
House of Reason
1989
Image Not Available for A Landlord. - Oh! Mr. de Macaire, you wouldn't turn us out into the street just for being a miserable quarter late with our rent... - Where else should I put you, by devil? - But we've spent 30'000Fr. in your shop!... - That's another reason, it all comes back to me... - And my four poor small children?... - What the heavens is that to do with me. I didn't ask you to have them!...
A Landlord. - Oh! Mr. de Macaire, you wouldn't turn us out into the street just for being a miserable quarter late with our rent... - Where else should I put you, by devil? - But we've spent 30'000Fr. in your shop!... - That's another reason, it all comes back to me... - And my four poor small children?... - What the heavens is that to do with me. I didn't ask you to have them!...
1837
Image Not Available for A new way to float down the river of life. - Radiguet you rascal, to hell with you, your boat and your new invention.... it is your fault that the entire outing went down the drain. - Come, come now.... no reason to scream hell. I am just angry about my boot-maker... since my shoes are being filled with water coming from the holes in the pockets of my pants.
A new way to float down the river of life. - Radiguet you rascal, to hell with you, your boat and your new invention.... it is your fault that the entire outing went down the drain. - Come, come now.... no reason to scream hell. I am just angry about my boot-maker... since my shoes are being filled with water coming from the holes in the pockets of my pants.
1843
Image Not Available for The Oyster. (You'll wake me up at dinner time.) Big, fat, thick, plump, greedy, wakes up only for the purpose of taking in food and sleeps only for the purpose of digesting it. The oyster does not eat for living, but lives for eating. Its locomotive and industrial apparatus are non existent. It vegetates on the spot and its existence is manifested only by the exactitude, the number and the quality of the meals. The entire energy of the oyster is located in the stomach. One might call it an animal of pleasure, its only mission in life being to consume without working, while others work without consuming. It seems to be perfectly at ease with this providential mission. (Lacépède – Natural History.)
The Oyster. (You'll wake me up at dinner time.) Big, fat, thick, plump, greedy, wakes up only for the purpose of taking in food and sleeps only for the purpose of digesting it. The oyster does not eat for living, but lives for eating. Its locomotive and industrial apparatus are non existent. It vegetates on the spot and its existence is manifested only by the exactitude, the number and the quality of the meals. The entire energy of the oyster is located in the stomach. One might call it an animal of pleasure, its only mission in life being to consume without working, while others work without consuming. It seems to be perfectly at ease with this providential mission.
(Lacépède – Natural History.)
1837
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 How can you possibly be as thin as this? My dear friend, you should never come to the swimming pool without wearing long cotton pants. - And you, my friend, don't ever show yourself to the world in this costume without having upholstered yourself before.... I can give you the address of my upholsterer.
How can you possibly be as thin as this? My dear friend, you should never come to the swimming pool without wearing long cotton pants. - And you, my friend, don't ever show yourself to the world in this costume without having upholstered yourself before.... I can give you the address of my upholsterer.
1864
Image Not Available for Interior of Birket Foster's House, Without Figures
Interior of Birket Foster's House, Without Figures
Published 1903
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The Windmill Without Rails
ca. 1641