Air connu Partit en Guerre Pour Tuer les Ennemis
Print
1870-1871 (printed)
1870-1871 (printed)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Satirical print showing a pig, carrying a rifle and headed in the direction of Berlin - marked on a signpost to the left. Above is a clouded sun containing the words 'Couchant / Infamie / Trahison / December 1852'. Behind is a signpost marked 'Paris' and above a sun with the cap of liberty and the words 'Levant / Loyauté / Justice / L'union fait La Force'. In the right foreground is a stone marked '4 September 1870'. 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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| Object type | |
| Title | Air connu Partit en Guerre Pour Tuer les Ennemis (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Hand-coloured lithograph on paper |
| Brief description | 'Air connu Partit en Guerre Pour Tuer les Ennemis'. Satirical print showing a pig carrying a rifle in the aftermath of the founding of the French Third Republic. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871. |
| Physical description | Satirical print showing a pig, carrying a rifle and headed in the direction of Berlin - marked on a signpost to the left. Above is a clouded sun containing the words 'Couchant / Infamie / Trahison / December 1852'. Behind is a signpost marked 'Paris' and above a sun with the cap of liberty and the words 'Levant / Loyauté / Justice / L'union fait La Force'. In the right foreground is a stone marked '4 September 1870'. 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 | 'Imp Lemaine & Fils Jne En Vente rue de Cléry 61 au 4 Air connu Partit en Guerre Pour Tuer les Ennemis' (Lettered) |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.342-1962 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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