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Le Musée-Homme ou Le Jardin des Bêler

Print
1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Satirical print in which Giuseppe Garibaldi is shown as a lion, wearing the cap of liberty and clinging onto an island in the sea lettered 'Carprera'. 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
Object type
Titles
  • Le Musée-Homme ou Le Jardin des Bêler (series title)
  • Garibaldi, Le Lion de la Liberté (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Brief description
'Garibaldi, Le Lion de la Liberté'. Satirical illustration by Faustin Betbeder in which Giuseppe Garibaldi is shown as a lion, wearing the cap of liberty and clinging onto an island in the sea. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1871.
Physical description
Satirical print in which Giuseppe Garibaldi is shown as a lion, wearing the cap of liberty and clinging onto an island in the sea lettered 'Carprera'. 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
  • 'Le Musée-Homme ou Le Jardin des Bêler Saillant, Editeur, r. du Croissant 5 & 10 Lith. Barousse, Paris Garibaldi, Le Lion de la Liberté.' (Lettered)
  • 'Faustin / Mars 1871' (Signed and dated)
  • '7' (Numbered)
Historical context
Carprera was the island to which Garibaldi retired.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Accession number
E.694-1962

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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