Jules Favre
Print
1870-1871 (printed)
1870-1871 (printed)
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Satirical print in which Jules Favre crushes Count Otto von Bismarck, disguised as a spider crab, underfoot, a tear welling from Favre's eye. Around him is a spider's web. On the right is a sign lettered 'Ferrieres'. 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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| Materials and techniques | Hand-coloured lithograph on paper |
| Brief description | 'Jules Favre'. Satirical illustration by Faustin Betbeder in which Jules Favre crushes Count Otto von Bismarck, disguised as a spider crab, underfoot. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871. |
| Physical description | Satirical print in which Jules Favre crushes Count Otto von Bismarck, disguised as a spider crab, underfoot, a tear welling from Favre's eye. Around him is a spider's web. On the right is a sign lettered 'Ferrieres'. 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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| Gallery label | "Faustin" (pseudonym of Faustin Betbeder) (born 1847)
Jules Favre (1809-80), both Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vice-President of the Government of National Defence, crushes Bismarck, disguised as the easily camouflaged spider crab. On 19 September Bismarck granted Favre an audience at the Rothschilds' Château de Ferrières. The only peace terms the Chancellor would consider included the cession of Alsace and part of Lorraine including Metz, terms which Favre could not possibly accept. He is said to have burst into tears although Bismarck believed that he attempted 'to work upon my feelings with a little theatrical performance, as the Parisian advocates work upon the public'.
Lithograph, coloured by hand. E.1001-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971) |
| Object history | Plate 1 from a series entitled 'Les Hommes Du Jour Par Faustin'. |
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| Accession number | E.1001-1962 |
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| Record created | February 4, 2009 |
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