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En 1870

Print
1870-1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
De Frondat, Napoléon Charles Louis (caricaturist)
Barousse (printer)
Place of origin
Paris (printed)

Satirical print with a depiction of Napoleon III with the lower body of a pig, clutching a bag of money to his breast. The emperor is wearing uniform with epaulettes and a hat and leaning on a cane. 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
Prints
Caricatures & Cartoons
Object type
Print
TitleEn 1870 (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Paper
Lithography
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
'En 1870'. Satirical illustration by De Frondat of Napoleon III with the lower body of a pig. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871.
Physical description
Satirical print with a depiction of Napoleon III with the lower body of a pig, clutching a bag of money to his breast. The emperor is wearing uniform with epaulettes and a hat and leaning on a cane. 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
  • Height: 29.2cm
  • Width: 19cm
Dimensions from: Lambert, Susan. The Franco-Prussian War and The Commune in Caricature 1870-71. catalogue of a collection of prints in the possession of the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1971.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'En 1870. Les avons nous assez tondus, les malheureux!.. Saillant, Edr. rue du Croissant 5 & 10. Lith. Barousse, à Paris.' (Lettered)
  • 'de Frondat' (Signed)
Gallery label
Napoléon Charles Louis De Frondat (born 1846) Napoleon III, clutching a bag of money to his breast, declares with a smirk that the Prussians have provoked the French enough. Lithograph, coloured by hand. E.341-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
Subjects depicted
Hat
Epaulettes
Pigs
Bonaparte, Napoleon III
Bibliographic references
  • Lambert, Susan, The Franco-Prussian War and The Commune in Caricature 1870-71: catalogue of a collection of prints in the possession of the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, V&A, 1971
  • 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.341-1962

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Record createdJanuary 27, 2009
Record URL
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