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Actualité Spéciale

Print
1870-1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Colomb, Alphonse Hector (caricaturist)
Barousse (lithographer)
Place of origin
Paris (printed)

Satirical print in which Napoleon III shakes Favre and Vinoy by the hand, and congratulates other members of the Assembly, as they stand around a bound woman dressed in red (representing the 'Presse Republicaine'. Behind them looms Thiers beside the Sainte Pélagie jail. 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
Caricatures & Cartoons
Prints
Object type
Print
Titles
  • Actualité Spéciale (series title)
  • Permettez-moi Messieurs... (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Paper
Lithography
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
'Permettez-moi Messieurs...' Satirical illustration by Alphonse Hector Colomb ('Moloch') in which Napoleon III shakes Favre and Vinoy by the hand, and congratulates other members of the Assembly, as they stand around a bound woman dressed in red. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871.
Physical description
Satirical print in which Napoleon III shakes Favre and Vinoy by the hand, and congratulates other members of the Assembly, as they stand around a bound woman dressed in red (representing the 'Presse Republicaine'. Behind them looms Thiers beside the Sainte Pélagie jail. 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: 45.9cm
  • Width: 30.5cm
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
  • 'Actualité Spéciale Saillant, Editr. r. du Croissant, 5 et 10. Lith. Barousse, Paris Permettez-moi Messieurs de vous féliciter, d’honneur je n’eusse pas mieux fait!...' (Lettered)
  • 'Pélagie' and 'Presse Republicaine' and the titles of newspapers (Lettered within the design.)
  • 'Moloch' (Signed)
Gallery label
"Moloch" (pseudonym of Alphonse Hector Colomb) (1849-1909) As soon as Vinoy took over the military command of Paris he curbed the freedom of the press. Just before the National Assembly adjourned on 10 March, it ordered the suppression of six Parisian papers, including Rochefort's Le Mot D'Ordre, Pyat's Le Vengeur, Pilotell's La Caricature and Vallès' Le Cri de Peuple. Napoleon III shakes Favre and Vinoy by the hand, and congratulates other members of the Assembly on their reversion to his own policy. Behind them looms Thiers beside the Sainte Pélagie jail, a prison where many journalists languished under the Empire. Lithograph, coloured by hand. E.1076-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
Subjects depicted
Woman
Jails
Epaulettes
Men
Uniform
Bonaparte, Napoleon III
Favre, Jules
Thiers, Adolphe
Vinoy, Joseph
Place depicted
Sainte Pélagie
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.1076-1962

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Record createdFebruary 6, 2009
Record URL
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