Quite Too-Too
Christmas Card
1881 (made)
1881 (made)
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Satirical card showing an aesthete in artistic dress. A woman sitting/slouching at the side of a fireplace, apparently enraptured by a Japanese paper parasol mounted in the fireplace as a screen. The fireplace has blue velvet curtains. The woman wears a golden yellow and black satin dress with flowers around the skirt and behind her is a firescreen with large sunflowers on a blue background.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph on card |
| Brief description | Albert Ludovici. Woman sitting by a fireplace. One of four cards from the "Quite too-too!" set, published by Hildesheimer & Faulkner, London, 1881. |
| Physical description | Satirical card showing an aesthete in artistic dress. A woman sitting/slouching at the side of a fireplace, apparently enraptured by a Japanese paper parasol mounted in the fireplace as a screen. The fireplace has blue velvet curtains. The woman wears a golden yellow and black satin dress with flowers around the skirt and behind her is a firescreen with large sunflowers on a blue background. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Very precious wishes for you. |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Guy Tristram Little |
| Object history | Designed by Albert Ludovici, II (born in Prague, 1852, died in 1932); printed and published by Hildesheimer & Faulkner, London |
| Bibliographic reference | Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1953 London: HMSO, 1963 |
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| Accession number | E.2416-1953 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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