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Joli cadeau fait á la Prusse!

Print
1870-1871 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Alcan-Lévy (printer)
Moloch (caricaturist)
Place of origin
Paris (printed)

Satirical print in which Napoleon III is picked up with tongs and thrown across the Rhine to Prussia. 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
TitleJoli cadeau fait á la Prusse! (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Engraving on paper
Paper
Engraving
Brief description
'Joli cadeau fait á la Prusse!'. Satirical illustration by Moloch in which Napoleon III is picked up with tongs and thrown across the Rhine to Prussia. Engraving, Paris, 1870-1871.
Physical description
Satirical print in which Napoleon III is picked up with tongs and thrown across the Rhine to Prussia. 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: 30.4cm
  • Width: 22.2cm
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
  • 'Joli cadeau fait á la Prusse! Lefman. Sc. Paris, - Impr. Alcan-Lévy (Lettered)
  • 'France / Rhin' (Lettered within design)
  • 'Moloch' (Signed)
Gallery label
(27/05/1971-10/10/1971)
After "Moloch" (pseudonym of Alphonse Hector Colomb)
(1849-1909)

The French, picking up their diseased and useless Emperor with tongs, throw him away across the Rhine to Prussia, pleased to be rid of him.

Process engraving by Lefman E.370-1962
Subjects depicted
Laurel Wreath
Tongs
Bonaparte, Napoleon III
Places depicted
France
Rhine
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.370-1962

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Record createdJanuary 30, 2009
Record URL
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