Title: –I'll pretend to be asleep, otherwise he will never stop explaining his plans for amending his latest bill. –I'll make him believe that I am asleep or he will go on and on about the minutes of the last session, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, September 9, 1868
Object type: Print
Date: September 9, 1868
Portfolio: 'News of the day' (Actualités)
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: 9 3/16 × 8 1/4 in. (23.4 × 21 cm)
Sheet: 11 7/8 × 11 5/16 in. (30.1 × 28.8 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: Sleeping, term: Men