Le Perce-Neige

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Artist/Maker	Le Petit, Alfred (caricaturist) Coulboeuf (printer)
Place of origin	Paris (printed)

Print depicting General Chanzy as a shrub emerging through the ice. On the right is a tree with the head of Otto von Bismarck. 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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Categories	Caricatures & Cartoons Prints
Object type	Print
Titles	Le Perce-Neige (assigned by artist) Fleurs, Fruits & Légumes Du Jour (series title)
Materials and techniques	Hand-coloured lithograph on paper Paper Lithography Hand-Colouring
Brief description	'Le Perce-Neige'. Satirical illustration by Alfred le Petit depicting General Chantzy as a shrub and Otto von Bismarck as a tree. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1871.
Physical description	Print depicting General Chanzy as a shrub emerging through the ice. On the right is a tree with the head of Otto von Bismarck. 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	The prints in this series are described in the accession record as being of various sizes.
Marks and inscriptions	'Fleurs, Fruits & Légumes Du Jour. Le Perce-Neige 3 Au Bureau de L'Eclipse, 16, Rue du Croissant, Paris Imp. Coulboeuf, Paris Le General Chanzy./ Ce Perce-Neige là, soldat des plus vaillants, / Percera les Prussiens, qui ne seront pas blancs' (Lettered) 'Alfred Le Petit / Paris 15 Janv 1871' (Signed and dated)
Subjects depicted	General Tree Shrub Chanzy, Antoine Eugène Alfred (General) Von Bismarck, Otto Eduard Leopold (Count)
Bibliographic reference	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.1608-1962

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1029398/le-perce-neige-print-le-petit-alfred/

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