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Troppman Le Distait Bien Qu'il Avait Des Complices

Print
1870-1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Renaux, Ed (caricaturist)
Place of origin
Paris (printed)

Satirical print in which emperor Wilhelm I, Count von Bismarck and Count von Moltke are depicted as the accomplices of the mass murderer Troppman, marching menacingly along the road to Paris. 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
Titles
  • Troppman Le Distait Bien Qu'il Avait Des Complices (assigned by artist)
  • Actualités (series title)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Paper
Lithography
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
'Troppman Le Distait Bien Qu'il Avait Des Complices'. Satirical illustration by Ed Renaux n which emperor Wilhelm I, Count von Bismarck and Count von Moltke are depicted as the accomplices of the mass murderer Troppman. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871.
Physical description
Satirical print in which emperor Wilhelm I, Count von Bismarck and Count von Moltke are depicted as the accomplices of the mass murderer Troppman, marching menacingly along the road to Paris. 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: 34.8cm
  • Width: 27.3cm
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
  • 'Actualités. No. 54 En vente chez Grognet 16 r. des Ecoles Dépôt chez Madre r. du Croissant Troppman Le Distait Bien Qu'il Avait Des Complices' (Title, lettered below design.)
  • 'Ed. Renaux' (Signed)
  • 'Route de Paris / Route de Pantin' (Lettered within the design)
Gallery label
Ed Renaux "Marcia" The triumvirate King William, Count von Bismarck and Count von Moltke, the Chief of Staff of the Prussian Army, are portrayed as the accomplices of the mass murderer Troppman, marching menacingly along the road to Paris. Troppmann was a maniac killer who had hacked to pieces and buried a whole family in the Pantin Plain. He was finally arrested at the end of 1869 and guillotined on 8 January, 1870. Lithograph, coloured by hand. E.790-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
Subjects depicted
Men
Hats
Direction Signs
Spade
Bismarck, Otto Von (Count)
Von Moltke (Count)
Wilhelm I (Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia)
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.790-1962

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Record createdFebruary 4, 2009
Record URL
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