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The Subscriber and His Newspaper. “- Listen darling, the first three columns of my morning paper are completely empty! It seems that they must have really said some nasty things. - May quite well be, but now that you mention it, to write nothing at all, I find that even more nasty!,” plate 2 from Caricatures Du Jour
1842
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 16.6 × 23.3 cm (6 9/16 × 9 3/16 in.); Sheet: 24.8 × 33.2 cm (9 13/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1948.407
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Honoré Daumier. The Subscriber and His Newspaper. “- Listen darling, the first three columns of my morning paper are completely empty! It seems that they must have really said some nasty things. - May quite well be, but now that you mention it, to write nothing at all, I find that even more nasty!,” plate 2 from Caricatures Du Jour. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
The Subscriber and His Newspaper. “- Listen darling, the first three columns of my morning paper are completely empty! It seems that they must have really said some nasty things. - May quite well be, but now that you mention it, to write nothing at all, I find that even more nasty!,” plate 2 from Caricatures Du Jour — Honoré Daumier. 1842.
Medium: Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 16.6 × 23.3 cm (6 9/16 × 9 3/16 in.); Sheet: 24.8 × 33.2 cm (9 13/16 × 13 1/8 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.