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Charles Rambert

Plate Two from Misery

1851
Lithograph in black on cream China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé)
24 × 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, “She is in power, already she bends man under her irony, forever forbids him to sing and shows him the sole purpose of his life; the bread he must tear from her.”

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