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Fédération Parisienne du Bâtiment

Show Card
1948-51 (issued)
Artist/Maker
Fédération Parisienne Du Bâtiment (issuer)
Le Campion, V. (artist)
Place of origin
France (issued)

Show-card of the Fédération Parisienne du Bâtiment. The design gives a view of the Ile de la Cité from the Pont Neuf.

Object details

Categories
Printed Pages & Sheets
Advertising
Ephemera
Prints
Object type
Show card
TitleFédération Parisienne du Bâtiment (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Process engraving print on paper
Printing Ink
Process Engraving
Brief description
Show-card of the Fédération Parisienne du Bâtiment, the design gives a view of the Ile de la Cité from the Pont Neuf. Process engraving print, designed and engraved by V. Le Campion, France, 1948-1951.
Physical description
Show-card of the Fédération Parisienne du Bâtiment. The design gives a view of the Ile de la Cité from the Pont Neuf.
Dimensions
  • Height: 47.3cm
  • Width: 33.1cm
Measured by DH 14/02/2011
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'FÉDÉRATION PARISIENNE / DU BATIMENT' (Lettered across top of design.)
  • 'Crééé le 17 Mars 1853, et longtemps connue sous le nom de ((Groupe de / la Sainte-Chapelle)), la FÉDÉRATION PARISIENNE / DU BATIMENT, / a toujours eu son siège dans la Cité de Paris. Elle réunit les Chambres / Syndicales des Entrepreneurs des Corps d'État du Bâtiment. C'est en 1871 / qu'elle s'est installée en son hôtel du 3, rue de Lutèce.' (Lettered within design, in the river waves.)
  • 'V. LE CAMPION DEL ET SC' (Lettered below bottom-left corner of design.)
  • 'TOLMER, ÉDIT.' (Lettered below bottom-right corner of design.)
  • 'MODERN PUBLICITY / Artist V. LE CAMPION (Graveur) / Advertiser Fédération Parisienne du / Bâtiment / Advertising Agent Tolmer / 15 Quai du Bourbon / Paris 4 / Autorisation de reproduire / [indecipherable signature]' (Paper label, printed and handwritten, attached to top-left corner of verso.)
  • 'LE CAMPION, V. / A view of the Ile de la Cité from the Pont neuf. Show-card of / the Fédération Parisienne du Bâtiment. c.1951. / Signed with monogram VLC and V. Le Campion del et sc. Lettered with title, / a note on the Fédération etc. / Process engraving. 15 3/8 x 10 1/4 E.1905-1952 Given by the Editor of Modern Publicity Note: This show-card was reproduced on p.104 of Modern Publicity 1952-1953, / The Studio Publications, 1952.' (Paper label attached to bottom-left corner of verso.)
Credit line
Given by the Editor of Modern Publicity
Object history
This show-card was reproduced on p.104 of Modern Publicity 1952-1953, The Studio Publications, 1952.
Subjects depicted
Escutcheons (Coats of Arms)
Bridge
Mermaid
Lion
Statue
Place depicted
Ile De La Cité
Bibliographic reference
Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1952. London: HMSO, 1963.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1905-1952

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O591843/fédération-parisienne-du-bâtiment-show-card-le-campion-v/
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