Caption
Passengers on the train at the entrance to a tunnel, L'entrée du grand tunnel d'un chemin de fer, Caricatures on the railways, Les chemins de fer, cartoon, Series number, 16, The conductor warns the passengers on top of the train that the tunnel is very narrow. They had better not move, because on every trip someone loses an arm, a leg, or a nose. The tunnel is too dark and too long to be able to find it again., printmaker: Honoré Daumier, Paris, printer (person): Aubert & Cie., publisher: Pannier & Cie., 1843, printer (person), paper, lithography, height 247 mm x width 363 mm, Print published in: Le Charivari, 09-07-1843. Le Charivari was a humorous newspaper with caricatures and (political) cartoons., passenger train, underground road, tunnel, caricatures (human types), steam locomotive, A charcoal-style drawing of several seated figures on an elevated platform inside a vehicle-like interior, all wearing formal hats and coats, one figure reaching toward a dark tunnel entrance on the left where textured shading suggests an opening, the seated figures showing varied facial expressions and turned heads, a lower compartment beneath them visible with more seated heads and hats seen through vertical supports, the overall scene rendered in soft pencil strokes with a pale background and darker shaded areas for depth.
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