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Marrons Sculptés

Print
1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
ED (caricaturist)
Barousse (lithographer)
Place of origin
Paris (printed)

Print showing Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès ironing sheets of paper. On the left a woman carrying a basket enters the room through a door. 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.


Object details

Categories
Caricatures & Cartoons
Prints
Object type
Print
Titles
  • Marrons Sculptés (series title)
  • Garnier Pagès (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Paper
Lithography
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
'Garnier Pagès'. Satirical illustration by 'ED' showing Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès ironing sheets of paper. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1871.
Physical description
Print showing Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès ironing sheets of paper. On the left a woman carrying a basket enters the room through a door. 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.
DimensionsThe prints in this series are described in the accession record as being of various sizes.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Marrons Sculptés. No.15 Lith. Barousse à Paris Duclaux, Edr. Place du Ch. d'Eau. 21. Dépôt: chez Madre, r. du Croissant 20.' (Lettered)
  • 'Ducrot, dit Trompe la mort, et sa fiancée. Ducrot, rêvsnt Oui je les chatierai ces misérables insurgés j'y entrerai dans Paris. La Mort, venant s'asseoir près de lui:__Et ta promesse vieux lâcheur!.' (Lettered with caption)
  • 'ED' (Signed with monogram and dated)
Subjects depicted
Paper
Iron
Woman
Basket
Man
Garnier-Pagès, Louis-Antoine
Bibliographic reference
Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964.
Other number
13
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1591-1962

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1029400/marrons-sculptés-print-ed/
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