Print on paper mounted on paper: lithograph 25.4 x 35.5 cm. California Pictorial Lettersheets from the Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material, BANC PIC 1963.002:0459—B, Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Creator/Contributor: Charpin [French artist, active ca. 1855]
Date: 1855
Printed dialog caption (LC) stating that “Actualitiés” form a collection commenting on absurdities committed by legislature or by interpretations of law. Inscriptions in French.
Image with DetailConsuming Identities: Visual Culture in 19th Century San Francisco traces the growth of the commodified image industry in San Francisco during the nineteenth century, incorporating mass-reproduced visual representations of people into a broader history and explaining the cultural roots of modern celebrity.
LEarn More