English: Plate 8; satire showing a group of seated Native-Americans watching as another points a stick towards a group of fashionable French people standing on a stage; among them is a couple, smartly dressed, the man wearing a military uniform and the woman with a showy hairstyle; behind them, two smartly dressed Frenchmen, one of them wearing a top hat; hanging on the wall, a picture representing an extravagantly-dressed couple. 1829
Hand-coloured lithograph
The scene refers to the group of six Native-americans brought to Paris by Colonel David Delaunay and exhibited to the Parisian public.
La Silhouette was published from the 24 December 1829 to the 2 January 1831. Founded by Honoré de Balzac, Emile de Girardin-Ratier and Victor Varaigne. It was the first weekly caricature journal published in France which valorised both text and image. The illustrations were executed by Henri Monnier, Charles Philipon, Grandville, Daumier, Devéria and Traviès.
See: David S. Kerr, 'Caricature and French political culture 1830-1848. Charles Philipon and the illustrated press', Oxford, 2000; Judith Wechsler, 'A Human Comedy: Physiognomy and Caricature in 19th Century Paris', London, 1982
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