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Plate Seven from Misery
Charles Rambert (French, active 1836–1867)LinkedCulture matchlcp-e443592ee6d6
- Date
- 1851
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on cream China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé)
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 207053
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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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- Credit line
- Suzanne Lord Folds Endowment Fund
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- Object type
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