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Menu Card

ca.1900 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Menu card with text at the top and the bottom of the page. On the left is a full-length illustration of a woman wearing a pale-green gown and holding a glass of champagne with both hands.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Brief description
Illustrated menu card (one of four) advertising Moët & Chandon champagne. Colour lithograph designed by Alphonse Mucha, ca.1900.
Physical description
Menu card with text at the top and the bottom of the page. On the left is a full-length illustration of a woman wearing a pale-green gown and holding a glass of champagne with both hands.
Dimensions
  • Height: 21.9cm
  • Width: 14.9cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1967. London: HMSO, 1968.
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Menu' (Lettered in red, at the top of the page)
  • 'Champagne Moët & Chandon' (Lettered in blue, at bottom of page)
  • 'Moët et Chandon' (Lettered within illustration)
  • 'F. Champenois, Paris' 'Mucha' (Lettered and signed at bottom edge of illustration)
Object history
Three of the cards duplicate E,1104-1106-1963. Christmas cards incorporating three of the designs in a reduced form, E.848, 849, 853-1919, were exhibited in 'A Victorian Christmas' held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, December 20th to January 14th 1967-8.
Subjects depicted
Associated objects
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1967 . London: HMSO, 1968.
Collection
Accession number
E.508-1967

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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