La Loge De Clarisse
Print
1870-1871 (printed)
1870-1871 (printed)
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Satirical print depicting Adolphe Thiers wearing a woman's dress, looking into a hand-mirror. On the wall hangs a portrait of Louis-Philippe; his attributes: the pear and the umbrella, are also present in the room. 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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Title | La Loge De Clarisse (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Hand-coloured lithograph on paper |
Brief description | 'La Loge De Clarisse'. Satirical illustration by Napoléon Charles Louis de Frondat depicting Adolphe Thiers wearing a woman's dress, looking into a hand-mirror. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871. |
Physical description | Satirical print depicting Adolphe Thiers wearing a woman's dress, looking into a hand-mirror. On the wall hangs a portrait of Louis-Philippe; his attributes: the pear and the umbrella, are also present in the room. 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 | Napoleon Charles Louis De Frondat (born 1846)
Thiers prepares for the show in the Grand Théâtre at Bordeaux, the eighteenth century theatre where the National Assembly held its first sitting. The portrait of Louis-Philippe and his attributes: the pear and the umbrella refer to Thier's royalist past.
Lithograph, coloured by hand. E.1100-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971) |
Object history | Provenance unknown. |
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Accession number | E.1100-1962 |
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Record created | February 6, 2009 |
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