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Les Assassins

Print
26/04/1871 (published)
Artist/Maker
Montbard, George (caricaturist)
Place of origin
Paris (published)

Front page of the newspaper 'La Fronde Illustrée', with an illustration depicting Adolphe Thiers and Jules Favre standing, bathed in blood and looking down at the dead body of a soldier, as the Republic raises her sword behind them. 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
TitleLes Assassins (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured process engraving on paper
Paper
Process Engraving
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
'Les Assassins'. Satirical illustration by George Montbard depicting Adolphe Thiers and Jules Favre standing and looking down at the dead body of a soldier. Front page of the newspaper 'La Fronde Illustrée', Thursday, 27 April 1871. Hand-coloured process engraving, 1871.
Physical description
Front page of the newspaper 'La Fronde Illustrée', with an illustration depicting Adolphe Thiers and Jules Favre standing, bathed in blood and looking down at the dead body of a soldier, as the Republic raises her sword behind them. 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: 40.6cm
  • Width: 26.3cm
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
  • 'La Fronde Illustrée', details of the paper's publication and ['Dessin de Montard'.] (Lettered above design)
  • 'LES ASSASSINS' (Title, lettered above design.)
  • 'Après le Crime ..... le Châtiment' (Lettered below design.)
  • 'LEFMAN SC' (Signed, bottom-left of design.)
  • 'MONTBARD' (Inscribed with facsimile signature, bottom-right of design.)
Gallery label
After Montbard (pseudonym of Charles Auguste Loye) (1841-1905) Thiers and Favre stand bathed in blood as the Republic raises her sword to administer justice. Process-engraving by Lefman. Coloured by hand. E.2218-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
Subjects depicted
Men
Sword
Woman
Shields (Armor)
Battle-Axes
Corpse
Favre, Jules
Thiers, Adolphe
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.2218-1962

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Record createdFebruary 12, 2009
Record URL
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