Le Lierre

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Artist/Maker	Le Petit, Alfred (caricaturist) Coulboeuf (printer)
Place of origin	Paris (printed)

Print in showing an ivy plant, wrapped round a roll of paper labelled 'Chartre de 1830', with the head of Jules Armand Dufaure. Hanging from the roll of paper is a seal with the face of Louis Philippe I. Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes. Each volume is half-bound in red leather, gold tooled and stamped with imperial emblems, title etc.

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Categories	Caricatures & Cartoons Prints
Object type	Print
Titles	Le Lierre (assigned by artist) Fleurs, Fruits & Légumes Du Jour (series title)
Materials and techniques	Hand-coloured lithograph on paper Paper Lithography Hand-Colouring
Brief description	'Le Lierre'. Satirical illustration by Alfred le Petit showing an ivy plant wrapped round a roll of paper with the head of Jules Armand Dufaure. of Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1871.
Physical description	Print in showing an ivy plant, wrapped round a roll of paper labelled 'Chartre de 1830', with the head of Jules Armand Dufaure. Hanging from the roll of paper is a seal with the face of Louis Philippe I. Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes. Each volume is half-bound in red leather, gold tooled and stamped with imperial emblems, title etc.
Dimensions	The prints in this series are described in the accession record as being of various sizes.
Marks and inscriptions	'Fleurs, Fruits & Légumes Du Jour. Le Lierre 23 Au Bureau de L'Eclipse, 16, Rue du Croissant, Paris Imp. Coulboeuf, Paris' (Lettered) 'Alfred Le Petit / Paris. 4 Mars 1871.' (Signed and dated) (Lettered with caption and name of subject) 'Musée Des Antiquités Politiques / ne touchez pas s.v.p.' (Lettered within the design)
Subjects depicted	Seal Scroll Charter Ivy Dufaure (Jules Armand) Louis-Philippe (King of France)
Bibliographic reference	Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.1628-1962

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1029381/le-lierre-print-le-petit-alfred/

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