Résurrection de la Censure (BM 1886,1012.412)

Plate 125, n.62; satire on the enforcement of censorship parodying the resurrection of Christ; with Count d'Argout as a claw-feeted man rising from a chest clutching a large pair of scissors; the chest rests on stones bearing the dates '27 28 29 Juillet' (the Three Glorious Days of the July Revolution); on the left, four sleeping men symbolizing the press; one of them wear a nightcap bearing the word 'Constitutionnel' (the official newspaper of the government). 29 February 1831
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