HUET Paul (1803 - 1869) - "Amnesty full and complete / Granted by death in 1832". Lithograph after Charles Philippon (1800-1862). Reference: Delteil, n°74. Proof on wove paper. Printed by Becquet and published in La Caricature. Off-text plate published in La Caricature politique, morale, littéraire et scénique, volume 5, November 8, 1832 (Plate n°215-216). Print representing a dark and gloomy landscape, a cemetery in the foreground. Several tombstones on which one can read the names of men who died in the prison of Sainte-Pélagie. "This plate was made following the publication in the Caricature of the pl. "Project of the expia-pear monument to be erected on the Place de la Révolution, precisely at the place where Louis XVI was guillotined" (pl. 169 of June 7, 1832; number 84), Charles [Philippon] had to serve a prison sentence of six months and pay a 2000 franc fine (he was condemned for contempt of the king's person), to which was added seven months related to other reasons for his conviction. It is his stay in this prison that inspired this plate denouncing the conditions of detention of prisoners, as well as what is considered as judicial errors. Margins. 32,8 x 44,2 cm. Condition C (traces of median folds, a tear in the upper and lower margin, numerous foxing).
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HUET Paul (1803 - 1869) - "Amnesty full and complete / Granted by death in 1832". Lithograph after Charles Philippon (1800-1862). Reference: Delteil, n°74. Proof on wove paper. Printed by Becquet and published in La Caricature. Off-text plate published in La Caricature politique, morale, littéraire et scénique, volume 5, November 8, 1832 (Plate n°215-216). Print representing a dark and gloomy landscape, a cemetery in the foreground. Several tombstones on which one can read the names of men who died in the prison of Sainte-Pélagie. "This plate was made following the publication in the Caricature of the pl. "Project of the expia-pear monument to be erected on the Place de la Révolution, precisely at the place where Louis XVI was guillotined" (pl. 169 of June 7, 1832; number 84), Charles [Philippon] had to serve a prison sentence of six months and pay a 2000 franc fine (he was condemned for contempt of the king's person), to which was added seven months related to other reasons for his conviction. It is his stay in this prison that inspired this plate denouncing the conditions of detention of prisoners, as well as what is considered as judicial errors. Margins. 32,8 x 44,2 cm. Condition C (traces of median folds, a tear in the upper and lower margin, numerous foxing).
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