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Caption continues: Oh yes il était tout à fait dommage que le carnaval il etait si court.
Date suggested by an entry recording publication of Darjou's lithograph in the 1864 volume of the Bibliographie de la France.
At head of image: Actualités.
Plate numbered "12" at upper right.
Plate bound into album measuring 365 x 308 mm.
Signed "A. Darjou" within the image at lower left; lettered "Lith Destouches, 28, r Paradis Pre" at bottom right.
Originally published in the journal Le Charivari; the separate issue, without the text on the verso.
Comprises plate 4 of a bound volume of published plates by Alfred-Henri Darjou (PML 141321).
Print shows a figure dressed as a jester standing at left, carrying a plaque at his side which reads "Charivari", and addressing a figure in military uniform representing England who wears a plumed hat and holds a mask in one hand as he poses wrapped in a length of drapery labeled "Sincerité", "Generosité", "Franchise", etc.