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Paris Dans Les Caves

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

Print depicting a scene in a Parisian 'cave'. A boy lies smoking a pipe, whilst a man and woman stand arguing. Another man has been wedged into the ventilation hole. 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
  • Paris Dans Les Caves (series title)
  • Ciel! mon mari........! (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Paper
Lithography
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
'Ciel! mon mari........!' Satirical illustration by B. Colomb ('Moloch') depicting a scene in a Parisian 'cave'. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871.
Physical description
Print depicting a scene in a Parisian 'cave'. A boy lies smoking a pipe, whilst a man and woman stand arguing. Another man has been wedged into the ventilation hole. 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: 26cm
  • Width: 21.9cm
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 Dans Les Caves (31) Chez Deforet & César, 64, Rue Nve. des Petits Champs. Imp. Talons, 19 Pl. du Mché. St. Honoré.' (Lettered)
  • 'Moloch' (Signed)
  • 'Ciel! mon mari........! / -Mon Dieu oui Madame. Il parait qu'on jette du pétrole dans les Caves, ma foi! n'ayant den de mieux / sous la main, nous nous sommes servis de Mr. votre époux boucher le soupirail.' (Lettered with caption)
Gallery label
"Moloch" (pseudonym of Alphonse Hector Colomb) (1849-1909) Parisians were so scared by the pétroleuses that they bricked up their cellar windows and kept any low windows shut all through the hot summer which followed the civil war. Lithograph, coloured by hand. From a series of 40. E.1751-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
Object history
This lithograph is from the set entitled 'Paris Dans Les Caves', a series of 39 plates portraying life below ground in Paris during the two sieges.
Subjects depicted
Men
Woman
Pipes (Smoking Equipment)
Bottle
Cellar
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.1751-1962

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Record createdFebruary 12, 2009
Record URL
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