''A mocking kiss''
Satire, Irony, and Caricature in prints and drawings
Satire, Irony, and Caricature in prints and drawings
- Ghezzi: The Master at the Harpsichord and His Two Disciples
- Hogarth: The Four Times of Day
- Anon. British: The Bishopric
- Benedetti: The Night Beauty
- Goya: All Will Fall
- Goya: They are Hot
- Goya: Yes he Broke the pot
- Rowlandson: Death Taking the Young Mother
- Rowlandson: Mr. Bullock's Exhibition of Laplanders
- Gillray: The Bulstrode Siren
- att. to Heath: The Wish Granted
- Desperret: ''The Charter is a reality...''
- Tregear: A Genius
- Travies de Villers: The Political Tower of Babel
- Anonymous (19th Century): The Gout
- Bracquemond: Margot la Critique
- Detouche: La Gourmandise
- Bellows: Solitude
- de Bruycker: Placing the Dragon
- Blampied: Deux Précieux
- Eichenberg: The Follies of the Court
14. Charles-Joseph Travies de Villers (1804-1859) The Political Tower of Babel |
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The Political Tower of Babel
Lithograph, 1834, 240 x 275 mm., Vicaire & Colonne 73, published in La Caricature, March 15, 1834. "Constructed as a prison to hold all the Republicans, Legitimists, Napoleonists, and the enemies of the Citizen King, essentially the entire city of Paris." Just like its biblical forebear, here is a tower that, in Louis-Philippe's vision, would reach to heaven and in which nobody could understand anyone else. The only real difference is that Louis Philippe's tower is a prison. A fine impression on white wove paper cut just barely into the text at top and bottom, narrow margins at the sides.