No. 4 Le Roi des Porcs

Item Information

• Description
  Caricature of writer Émile Zola (1840-1902) as a pig, captioned "King of Pigs," sitting on a stack of his novels and painting excrement over the map of France. Zola helped expose the framing of Dreyfus in J'accuse, an open letter published in the Paris newspaper L'Aurore on January 13, 1898.

• Item ID
  mdhps010010080
• Source Collection
  Musée des horreurs [serial]
• Publisher
  [Paris] : Impr. G. Lenepveu, [1899-1900]
• Language
  fre
• Provenance
  Posters in Musée des Horreurs were acquired by the Rubenstein Library as a purchase, 2011-2012.
• Date
  1899
• Spatial Coverage
  France
  Paris (France)
• Creator
  Lenepveu, V.
• Extent
  26 x 20 in.
• Title
  No. 4 Le Roi des Porcs
• Type
  Text
  Image
  caricatures
  cartoons
  political cartoons
  posters
  lithographs
  hand-colored lithographs
• Subject
  Zola, Émile, 1840-1902
  Antisemitism--France
  France--Politics and government--1870-1940

• Copyright & Usage
  The materials in this collection are made available for use in research, teaching and private study. Texts and images from this collection may not be used for any commercial purpose without prior permission from Duke University.