Juggling Planets

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These balls were nothing less than planets.

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Artist

Name:
Grandville, J.-J.
Dates:
1803-1847
Country:
France

Illustration

Subject:
Humor
Technique:
Wood Engraving
Format:
Portrait (taller)
Source:
The Getty Research Institute, The Internet Archive

Book

Title:
Un autre monde
Author:
Delord, Taxile
Publisher:
Paris: Henri Fournier, 1844
Open Library:
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Description:

A performing artist with leonine hair and mustache stands among large planets while happily juggling smaller ones and their satellites, not heeding a medal (the Legion of Honor) falling out like a shooting star, greedily awaited by a tiny man standing on the earthly globe.

The caption reads in the original French: Ces boules n’étaient rien moins [sic] que des univers.

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