Zola - 32 Caricatures de Lebourgeois

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(DREYFUS AFFAIR).

printer

E. Bernard et Cie

Place

Paris

Publication

1898

Description

32 loose multicolor illustrated plates, measuring 63/4 x 10 inches

summary

After Emile Zola came to the defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in his famous "J'Accuse," the anti-Dreyfus camp, composed of rabid anti-Semites, pounced upon Zola, portraying him in the most extreme terms. A prime example of this villification campaign is the present scarce collection of plates by the caricaturist H. Lebourgeois. See J.M. Guieu, "Les caricatures antidreyfusardes de H. Lebourgeois" in: Mimesis et Semiosis: Litterature et representation (1992), pp. 435-46

ff. (1), 32. Original boards with ties. Lg. 4to

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