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Charles Rambert

Plate Seven from Misery

1851
Lithograph in black on cream China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé)
23.9 × 17.2 cm (9.4 × 6.8 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

The text on this print translates as, “Misery offers man suicide as the end of all his evils. Exhausted by pain, he staggers and would fall; faith comes to his rescue and supports him.”

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