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| Keywords: Eugène Delacroix, The Crayfish at Longchamps, 1822.jpg Artwork Creator Eugène Delacroix The Crayfish at Longchamps Satire on censorship and the royalist press two of the pillars of Ultra opinion; a race at Longchamps with in the distance riders on horses moving along the Champs-Élysées towards the unfinished Étoile arch while in the foreground a deviation from the race by two odd carriages each pulled by a crayfish going backwards facing the opposite direction from their riders in the centre one of these carriages bears a group comprising wigged men in uniform 'voltigeurs' identified by 'Le Miroir' as press censors and Academicians and a woman in outdated dress 'La Quotidienne' one of whom has a speech bubble with the motto of the Order of the Crayfish En arrière marche while behind them to the left a smaller carriage flying the banner with the scissors of censorship and bearing the 'éteignoir' candle-snuffer -shaped or 'pain de sucre' sugar-loaf figure of the censor Marie-Joseph Pain on a chair the censor Lachaize ; in the foreground to left two bystanders one possibly Delacroix himself blowing a whistle at the at the two carriages; published in 'Le Miroir' 4th April 1822 Lithograph 1822 Lithograph; second state Sheet 8 7/16 x 12 1/8 in 21 5 x 30 8 cm Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art http //www britishmuseum org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details aspx objectId 1351779 partId 1 British Museum object history exhibition history 337327 In plate En arrière marche <br>bottom Litho de C Motte R des marais Les Ecrevisses à Longchamps credit line The Elisha Whittelsey Collection The Elisha Whittelsey Fund 1958 accession number 58 512 10 PD-100 Eugène Delacroix Hippodrome de Longchamp Lithographs of Paris Caricatures of Paris Lithographs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1822 in Paris 1822 lithographs Le Miroir Crayfish in art Images of Paris from the Metropolitan Museum of Art | ||||
