CHAM (A. de Noé, known as). - Lot 64

CHAM (A. de Noé, known as). Born in Paris. 1818-1879. Illustrator, caricaturist and playwright. 3 drawing prints (10.8 x 12 cm ; 15.3 x 19.2 cm ; 16.9 x 22 cm). Autograph manuscripts: 4 pp. small in-4. S.l.n.d. On the verso of the drawing depicting a bourgeois whose watch is stolen, Cham has noted the following text: ...it's perfectly useless to redo this wood, it's as good as the others, to do it right we'd have to start all over again, it's agreed moreover that this year's Almanach will be by the illustrator Tartempion or someone else but not by Cham...The set of manuscripts is composed of texts intended for the monthly captions of a comic almanac and its advertising promotion: ...Almanach Comique. January. Et mes étrennes? February He's happy! He didn't have to pay for it! (...) August. Excellent effects obtained with the Latin Discourse for the Slaughter of Butchery Animals (...) December "Msieur prêtez moi vos bottes que le petit Noel me les remplisse de joujoux...Humorous exchange of different Almanachs seeking to attract the buyer's choice: ...Texte du bois - Almanach comique "Buy me! I'm the funniest! Almanach pour rire "Don't listen to him! I'm the real joker" Al. Prophetic "Take me, I'm a serious almanac! (...) (Le Bourgeois ahuri) "for God's sake! leave me alone! I'll take you all!"......Frontispice du Pour Rire - Atlas paying himself a hook to carry the world until he's rich enough to have it carried by a commissionaire...