Conductor, Conductor, stop the train for heaven's sake, I have a stomach ache!
Artist
Honoré Daumier
(French, 1808 - 1879)
Date1843
MediumLithograph on newsprint
DimensionsUnframed: 9 3/8 × 10 3/16 in. (23.8 × 25.9 cm)
Framed: 17 3/8 × 21 3/8 in. (44.1 × 54.3 cm)
ClassificationsWORK ON PAPER
Credit LineDixon Gallery and Gardens; Gift of Dr. Armand Hammer
Object number1987.36
DescriptionA man sits on top of a moving train and is speaking to a man leaning out of a window of the train. The training is moving out of a tunnel. State: iv/iv; Plate: #12Text printed below the image:
-Conducteur! ...Conducteur!... arrêtez, au nom du ciel!.... j'ai la colique! ...
- Impossible... l'administration le défend!.. mais dans deux heures un quart nous serons à Orléans!...
-Conductor, Conductor, stop the train for heaven's sake, I have a stomach ache!
- Impossible, the administration forbids it...... but in two hours and fifteen minutes we'll be in Orléans!
Status
Not on view