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Plante Grasse

Print
1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Print in which Adolphe Crémieux is depicted as having the body of a potted cactus plant.
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
  • Plante Grasse (assigned by artist)
  • Fleurs, Fruits & Légumes Du Jour (series title)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Brief description
'Plante Grasse'. Satirical illustration by Alfred le Petit in which Adolphe Crémieux is depicted as having the body of a potted cactus plant. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1871.
Physical description
Print in which Adolphe Crémieux is depicted as having the body of a potted cactus plant.
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: 24.1cm
  • Width: 13.3cm
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
  • 'Fleurs, Fruits & Légumes Du Jour. Plante Grasse 21 Au Bureau de L'Eclipse, 16, Rue du Croissant, Paris Imp. Coulboeuf, Paris' (Lettered)
  • 'Alfred Le Petit / Paris. 25 Fevrier 1871.'' (Signed and dated)
  • (Lettered with caption and name of subject)
Gallery label
Le Petit, Alfred "Zut" (1841-1909) Adolphe Crémieux was Minister of Justice in the Government of National Defence. The delegation at Tours, set up to organize the liberation of Paris from the outside, was under his dithering leadership, until he handed over his duties to Gambetta. Lithograph, coloured by hand. From a series of 12. E.1626-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
Object history
Plate 21 from a series of 32 entitled 'Fleurs, Fruits & Légumes Du Jour'.
Subjects depicted
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
Accession number
E.1626-1962

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Record createdFebruary 4, 2009
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