Quite Too-Too

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Artist/Maker	Hildesheimer & Faulkner (printer and publisher) Albert Ludovici II (artist)
Place of origin	London (printed and published)

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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Categories	Greeting Cards Satire Caricatures & Cartoons Christmas Prints Gender and Sexuality Interiors Womenswear Furniture
Object type	Christmas card
Titles	Quite Too-Too (series title) With Precious Wishes for You! (published title)
Materials and techniques	Colour lithograph on card Lithographic Ink Colour Lithography
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.
Dimensions	Unframed height: 12.5cm Width: 8.5cm
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
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.2416-1953

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O589223/quite-too-too-christmas-card-albert-ludovici-ii/

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