May you have a Quite Too Happy Time
Christmas Card
1881 (made)
1881 (made)
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Object Type
This card is one of a series of prize-winning greetings cards printed by colour lithography.
Time
The set of cards of which this is a part parodied the Aesthetic Movement, with its followers' love of Chinese and Japanese objects and certain plants, such as lilies and sunflowers. Their fascination with tea pots was satirised in particular. George du Maurier drew a number of cartoons satirising the Aesthetic Movement for 'Punch' magazine, including a cartoon entitled 'The Six-Mark Teapot'. In it, the 'Aesthetic Bridegroom' and his 'Intense Bride' are looking at a teapot. He declares 'It is quite consummate, is it not?' and she replies 'It is, indeed! Oh, Algernon, let us live up to it!'. Similarly in the contemporary play by F.C. Burnand, 'The Colonel', the leading character says, 'There is so much to be learned from a teapot'.
People
This is from a set of prize-winning designs by Albert Ludovici II (1852-1932). A number of printers awarded annual prizes for novel greeting card designs in order to acquire new designs for their next season's collection.
This card is one of a series of prize-winning greetings cards printed by colour lithography.
Time
The set of cards of which this is a part parodied the Aesthetic Movement, with its followers' love of Chinese and Japanese objects and certain plants, such as lilies and sunflowers. Their fascination with tea pots was satirised in particular. George du Maurier drew a number of cartoons satirising the Aesthetic Movement for 'Punch' magazine, including a cartoon entitled 'The Six-Mark Teapot'. In it, the 'Aesthetic Bridegroom' and his 'Intense Bride' are looking at a teapot. He declares 'It is quite consummate, is it not?' and she replies 'It is, indeed! Oh, Algernon, let us live up to it!'. Similarly in the contemporary play by F.C. Burnand, 'The Colonel', the leading character says, 'There is so much to be learned from a teapot'.
People
This is from a set of prize-winning designs by Albert Ludovici II (1852-1932). A number of printers awarded annual prizes for novel greeting card designs in order to acquire new designs for their next season's collection.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph on card |
| Brief description | Albert Ludovici. An aesthetic lady with a teapot. 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 in a terracotta-pink dress with high waist and puffed sleeves and black satin poke-bonnet with orange feathers holding a big brown teapot. Behind her, a Japanese four-fold screen with cranes painted on it and a blue and white porcelain vase with lilies on a table. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Guy Tristram Little |
| Object history | Designed by Albert Ludovici, II (born in Prague,1852, died in1932); printed and published by Hildesheimer & Faulkner, London Designed by Albert Ludovici, II (born in Prague, 1852, died in 1932); printed and published by Hildesheimer & Faulkner, London |
| Summary | Object Type This card is one of a series of prize-winning greetings cards printed by colour lithography. Time The set of cards of which this is a part parodied the Aesthetic Movement, with its followers' love of Chinese and Japanese objects and certain plants, such as lilies and sunflowers. Their fascination with tea pots was satirised in particular. George du Maurier drew a number of cartoons satirising the Aesthetic Movement for 'Punch' magazine, including a cartoon entitled 'The Six-Mark Teapot'. In it, the 'Aesthetic Bridegroom' and his 'Intense Bride' are looking at a teapot. He declares 'It is quite consummate, is it not?' and she replies 'It is, indeed! Oh, Algernon, let us live up to it!'. Similarly in the contemporary play by F.C. Burnand, 'The Colonel', the leading character says, 'There is so much to be learned from a teapot'. People This is from a set of prize-winning designs by Albert Ludovici II (1852-1932). A number of printers awarded annual prizes for novel greeting card designs in order to acquire new designs for their next season's collection. |
| 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.2415-1953 |
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