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L'Homme A La Boule

Print
1870-1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Vallée (printer)
Renard, Jules (caricaturist)
Place of origin
Paris (printed)

Satirical print in which Count Otto von Bismarck balances on a the world with one spurred foot entering France, and wearing only his underpants which are marked with the German imperial eagle. 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
TitleL'Homme A La Boule (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured process engraving on paper
Paper
Engraving
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
'L'Homme A La Boule'. Satirical print by Jules Renard ('Draner') in which Count Otto von Bismarck balances on a the world with one spurred foot entering France. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871.
Physical description
Satirical print in which Count Otto von Bismarck balances on a the world with one spurred foot entering France, and wearing only his underpants which are marked with the German imperial eagle. 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: 38.7cm
  • Width: 26.4cm
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
  • 'L'Homme A La Boule Par Draner. Tarteifle! je ne gonprends par ce que j'ébrouve? Il me semble que je affre perdu l'eguilipre, et que mon pied il affre clissé sur la poule. Lefman & Lourdel Sc. / En vent chez Strauss, 7, rue du Croissant, & chez Madre, 20, rue du Croissant. 843. - Paris. - Imprimerie Vallée, 16, rue du Croissant.' (Lettered)
  • 'Draner' (Signed)
Object history
Provenance unknown.
Subjects depicted
Globe
Bismarck, Otto Von (Count)
Place depicted
France
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: Victoria and Albert Museum, 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.879-1962

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Record createdJanuary 30, 2009
Record URL
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