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The Disadvantage of Buying a Newspaper That is Publishing the News Twelve Hours Before the others. “- How come I buy your paper and cannot find the news of today? - Sir, today's news was in yesterday's paper,” plate 139 from Actualités
1848
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 26.8 × 20.7 cm (10 9/16 × 8 3/16 in.); Sheet: 34.8 × 26.2 cm (13 3/4 × 10 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1923.70
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Honoré Daumier. The Disadvantage of Buying a Newspaper That is Publishing the News Twelve Hours Before the others. “- How come I buy your paper and cannot find the news of today? - Sir, today's news was in yesterday's paper,” plate 139 from Actualités. Art Institute of Chicago. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
The Disadvantage of Buying a Newspaper That is Publishing the News Twelve Hours Before the others. “- How come I buy your paper and cannot find the news of today? - Sir, today's news was in yesterday's paper,” plate 139 from Actualités — Honoré Daumier. 1848.
Medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 26.8 × 20.7 cm (10 9/16 × 8 3/16 in.); Sheet: 34.8 × 26.2 cm (13 3/4 × 10 3/8 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.