Presentation solemnelle d'une seringue d'honneur au Ge. Lancelot pour le 1er de l'an 1832 // [Solemn presentation of a syringe of honor to General Lancelot for the 1st of the year 1832].
Depiction: Caricature; military scene. Officer leans on fireplace mantel at left, with hand extended toward group of officers at right; one member of the group is reading a citation and presenting a giant syringe to the officer leaning against the mantel.
Provenance: From the Collection of Elmer Adler.
Signed in plate, lower right: "Chez Aubert Eeur du Jol la Caricature, Galerie Vero Dodat".
Signed on stone, lower right: "C.J. Travies".
Signed in plate, lower left: "Lith de Delaporte".
Source acquisition
Gift of Elmer Adler.
References
Beraldi XII, p. 149-3
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