Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879) Lilliputiens essayant de profiter du sommeil d'un nouveau Gulliver (Lilliputians Trying to Take Advantage of the Sleep of a New Gulliver), 1850 Lithograph Gift of Eugene L. Garbaty, 1954.130
At the time of this image’s printing, conservative ministers of the short-lived Republican government had just pushed through a bill curbing universal manhood suffrage and dis-enfranchising a segment of the voting population.