Ten Assassinations for a Penny
Medium
lithograph
Dimensions
image: 60.6 × 46.5 cm · sheet: 60.6 × 46.5 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of John Bonebrake
Accession Number
2012.271
Tags
male
About this artwork
Nineteenth-century French lithographs, including Steinlen’s charged political images, offer wide-ranging documentation of the life at the time. In 1881 France passed a law granting freedom of the press, resulting in numerous magazines of humor and social criticism. An advocate for the poor, the downtrodden, and the working classes, Steinlen contributed artwork to journals linked to the leftist movement, such as the anarchist publication La feuille (The Newspaper), in which Ten Assassinations for...