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La Grrrrande Orateuse

Print
1870-1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Unknown (caricaturist)
Moronval, J. (printer)
Place of origin
Paris (printed)

Satirical print in which a woman in the pulpit of a church speaks to the crowd below her.
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
  • La Grrrrande Orateuse (assigned by artist)
  • Paris Sous La Commune (series title)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured wood-engraving on paper
Paper
Wood-Engraving
Brief description
'La Grrrrande Orateuse'. Satirical illustration in which a woman in the pulpit of a church speaks to the crowd below her. Hand-coloured wood-engraving, France, 1870-1871.
Physical description
Satirical print in which a woman in the pulpit of a church speaks to the crowd below her.
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: 30.7cm
  • Width: 18.1cm
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
  • 'PARIS SOUS LA COMMUNE' (Series title, lettered above design)
  • 'LA GRRRRANDE ORATEUSE' (Title, lettered below design)
  • 'Du grrrrand Club des Amazones de la Commune' (Lettered below design)
  • 'LOI SUR LE DIVORCE' (Lettered within design)
  • 'Dépôt central de l'Imagerie populaire, 65. Rue Galande, 65 Propriété de l'Editeur. (Déposé.) Paris-Imp.J. Moronval' (Lettered outside design)
Gallery label
Anonymous Anti-clericalism was common to all communards. Not only were large numbers of priests imprisoned for 'vagrancy’ but churches were also taken over to house Red Clubs. Wood-engraving, coloured by hand. From a series of at least 12. E.1421-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
Object history
This print was from a series of at least 12 entitled 'Paris Sous La Commune'.
Historical context
Vicious anti-clericalism was common to all Parisian communards. Not only were large numbers of priests imprisoned for 'vagrancy' but churches were also taken over to house Red Clubs.
Subjects depicted
Woman
Pulpit
Figurine
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.1421-1962

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Record createdFebruary 12, 2009
Record URL
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