Title: The defendant (whispering to his lawyer): All this seems to bore the president. Why don't you just suggest to simply let me go home, from 'Parisian sketches,' published in Le Charivari, February 17, 1866
Object type: Print
Date: February 17, 1866
Portfolio: 'Parisian sketches' (Croquis Parisiens)
Artist:  Honoré Daumier 
Artist bio: French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)
Dimensions: Image: 8 15/16 × 8 3/8 in. (22.7 × 21.3 cm)
Sheet: 11 11/16 × 10 7/8 in. (29.7 × 27.6 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Satire, term: Men, term: Writing