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Un Vieux Cerf

Print
1870-1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Lemaine & Fils (printer)
ED (caricaturist)
Place of origin
Paris (printed)

Satirical print in which the Emperor Napoleon III is shown seated, cross-legged, and depicted in the traditional guise of a cuckold with horns. Placed on top of his horns is a crown. 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
Prints
Caricatures & Cartoons
Object type
Print
TitleUn Vieux Cerf (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured lithograph on paper
Paper
Lithography
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
'Un Vieux Cerf'. Satirical illustration in which the Emperor Napoleon III is shown seated in the guise of a cuckold with horns. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871.
Physical description
Satirical print in which the Emperor Napoleon III is shown seated, cross-legged, and depicted in the traditional guise of a cuckold with horns. Placed on top of his horns is a crown. 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: 27.6cm
  • Width: 19.3cm
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
  • 'Un Vieux Cerf En vente chez Duclaux, 21, Place du Château-d’Eau, - Dépôt chez Madre, 20, rue du Croissant. Imp. Lemaine et Fils. O Badinguet Sit u n'es plus empereur des Français, tu restes / toujours le roi des c........' (Lettered)
  • 'ED' (Signed with monogram)
Gallery label
(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
E D

The Emperor is represented in the traditional guise of a cuckold with horns.

Lithograph, coloured by hand. E.419-1962
Subjects depicted
Caricatures
Bonaparte, Napoleon III
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.419-1962

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Record createdJanuary 28, 2009
Record URL
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