Plate Two from Misery

Description

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.”

Plate Two from Misery

Charles Rambert

1851

Accession Number

207048

Medium

Lithograph in black on cream China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé)

Dimensions

Image: 24 × 17.2 cm (9 1/2 × 6 13/16 in.); Primary support: 27.4 × 19.5 cm (10 13/16 × 7 11/16 in.); Secondary support: 43.2 × 29.5 cm (17 1/16 × 11 5/8 in.)

Classification

lithograph

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Suzanne Lord Folds Endowment Fund