13. Honorè Daumiér
(1808-1879)

Souvenir du Grand Festival des Orphéonistes: Aspect de la Salle ... Alliance de la Télégraphie et de la Musique (Alliance of Telegraphy and Music)

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Daumier, Aspect de le la Salle

Souvenir du Grand Festival des Orphéonistes: Aspect de la Salle ... Alliance de la Télégraphie et de la Musique (Alliance of Telegraphy and Music)

Hand-colored lithograph, 1859, 243 x 270mm., Delteil 3132; Berlioz Exhibition Catalog, 1969, No. 275. In a vast room, three conductors on raised platforms direct a huge multitude. A few sour-faced gentlemen in top hats converse in the foreground. The point of the print is revealed by the last words of its title and by a passage in the Memoires of Hector Berlioz, in which he writes "...five assistant conductors receive my movements by electric wires?." A fine impression on white wove paper with margins, superbly hand colored and with touches of albumen. The magazine edition was published in Charivari on April 2, 1859. Morse's first telegraph message, by the way, was in 1844.