Plate Seven from Misery
Charles Rambert
1851
Medium
Lithograph in black on cream China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé)
Dimensions
Image: 23.9 × 17.2 cm (9 7/16 × 6 13/16 in.); Primary support: 27.2 × 19.5 cm (10 3/4 × 7 11/16 in.); Secondary support: 43.2 × 29.7 cm (17 1/16 × 11 3/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
207053
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
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.”