Monsieur Le M....Arquis De Gallifet
Print
1870-1871 (printed)
1870-1871 (printed)
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Satirical print in which Gaston Auguste, depicted as having the body of a fish, stands with blood-letting equipment holding a candle. He has a Prussian medal tied to his tail.
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.
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
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| Title | Monsieur Le M....Arquis De Gallifet (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Hand-coloured lithograph on paper |
| Brief description | 'Monsieur Le M....Arquis De Gallifet'. Satirical illustration by B. Colomb ('Moloch') in which Gaston Auguste, depicted as having the body of a fish, stands with blood-letting equipment holding a candle. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871. |
| Physical description | Satirical print in which Gaston Auguste, depicted as having the body of a fish, stands with blood-letting equipment holding a candle. He has a Prussian medal tied to his tail. 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. |
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| Gallery label | "Moloch" (pseudonym of Alphonse Hector Colomb) (1849-1909)
The cold blooded Gaston Auguste, Marquis de Gallifet, formerly an officer in Napoleon's household, is represented with his blood-letting equipment. His ruthless supervision of the columns of haggard communards on the walk from Paris to Versailles earned him a justified reputation for cruelty. Any communards with grey hair, who might therefore be old enough to have fought in the 1848 revolution, any prisoners wearing watches which might indicate that they were communard officials, and any who caught his attention by their pluck, exhaustion or for any other reason, were immediately taken into the Bois de Boulogne and shot.
Lithograph, coloured by hand. E.1355-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971) |
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| Accession number | E.1355-1962 |
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| Record created | February 13, 2009 |
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