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Thiers dit: Coeur Saignant

Print
1870-1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Colomb, B. (Moloch) (caricaturist)
Talons (printer)
Place of origin
Paris (printed)

Satirical print in which Death, wearing a red cloak and holding a scythe, stands over Adolphe Thiers as he attempts to fire a cannon. 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
TitleThiers dit: Coeur Saignant (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Paper
Lithography
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
'Thiers dit: Coeur Saignant'. Satirical illustration by B. Colomb ('Moloch') in which Death, wearing a red cloak and holding a scythe, stands over Adolphe Thiers as he attempts to fire a cannon. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871.
Physical description
Satirical print in which Death, wearing a red cloak and holding a scythe, stands over Adolphe Thiers as he attempts to fire a cannon. 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: 25.7cm
  • Width: 19.7cm
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
  • 'THlERS DlT: 'COEUR SAlGNANT' (Title, lettered below design)
  • 'O Mort! Attends encore un instant! ...' (Lettered below design)
  • 'CI-GIT ADOLPHE THIERS' (Lettered within design)
  • 'Moloch' (Signed bottom-right of design)
  • '16' (Numbered above design)
  • 'Chez DEFORET & CÉSAR, Libraires-Editeurs, 64, Rue Nve. des-Petits-Champs. / Imp. TALONS, Marché St. Honoré, 19' (Lettered below design.)
Gallery label
"Moloch" (pseudonym of Alphonse Hector Colomb) (1849-1909) Thiers beseeches death to allow him more time in which to shatter Paris. Lithograph, coloured by hand. E.1357-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
Object history
Provenance unknown.
Subjects depicted
Man
Scythe
Cannon
Skeleton
Thiers, Adolphe
Death
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.1357-1962

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Record createdFebruary 11, 2009
Record URL
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