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Tentative de Viol

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

'Tentative de Viol'; Lithograph, coloured by hand; A naked Adolphe Thiers is accused of trying to violate a naked woman (symbolising the Republic). She kicks him in the face, as his accomplice Jules Favre stands holding a candle. Signed Moloch.
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
TitleTentative de Viol (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Lithograph on paper
Paper
Lithography
Brief description
Paris Commune print; 'Tentative de Viol'; Lithograph, coloured by hand; A naked Adolphe Thiers is kicked in the face by a naked woman (symbolising the Republic), as Jules Favre stands holding a candle; Alphonse Hector Colomb ('Moloch'); France; 1870-71.
Physical description
'Tentative de Viol'; Lithograph, coloured by hand; A naked Adolphe Thiers is accused of trying to violate a naked woman (symbolising the Republic). She kicks him in the face, as his accomplice Jules Favre stands holding a candle. Signed Moloch.
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: 21.3cm
  • Width: 26cm
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
  • Tentative de Viol (Title, lettered below design.)
  • (6) (Numbered above design.)
  • Chez DEFORET & CÉSAR, Libraires- Editeurs, 64, Rue Nve. des Petits-Champs. / Imp. TALONS, Marché St. Honoré 19 (Lettered below design, above title.)
  • Moloch (Signed bottom-right of design.)
  • (Most prints in this set are lettered with the names of artists and printers and have captions)
Gallery label
(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
"Moloch" (pseudonym of Alphonse Hector Colomb) (1849-1909)

Thiers, stamped with the fleur-de-lys, is accused of trying to violate the Republic. Favre, his accomplice, holds the candle.

Lithograph, coloured by hand. E.2271-1962
Object history
Provenance unknown.
Subjects depicted
Men
Caricature
Woman
Candle
Thiers, Adolphe
Favre, Jules
Marianne
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.2271-1962

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Record createdFebruary 9, 2009
Record URL
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