Latest news, from 'In the pub,' published in Le Charivari, December 30, 1863

Latest news, from 'In the pub,' published in Le Charivari, December 30, 1863

Honoré Daumier

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

- You can't enter the competition for the Prize of Rome if you are older than 25 years. - Looks like you missed your chance... since you have been talking about going to Rome since 1835.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.