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Each volume is half-bound in red leather, gold tooled and stamped with imperial emblems, title etc.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Betbeder, Faustin","id":"A24397"},"association":{"text":"caricaturist","id":"AAT25108"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Coulboeuf","id":"A36551"},"association":{"text":"printer","id":"AAT25732"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"}],"techniques":[{"text":"lithography","id":"AAT53271"},{"text":"hand-colouring","id":"AAT133555"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Hand-coloured lithograph on paper","categories":[{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"},{"text":"Caricatures & Cartoons","id":"THES48983"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2009BX2258"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLC (VA)","id":"THES49171"},"free":"","case":"GG","shelf":"203","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"print","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Paris","id":"x29068"},"association":{"text":"printed","id":"x46159"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1870-1871","earliest":"1870-01-01","latest":"1871-12-31"},"association":{"text":"printed","id":"x46159"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"E.412-1962","id":"O186159"},"association":"Set"}],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"28.3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"15.9","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions from: Lambert, Susan. <u>The Franco-Prussian War and The Commune in Caricature 1870-71</u>. catalogue of a collection of prints in the possession of the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Victoria and Albert Museum. 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Coulboeuf, Paris     ...Voyons...vrai, ça c'est y l'ouvrage d'une impératrice?.. ...Mais ma Cour était si sale!..Ah! ous qu'est mes Tuileries!..'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Lettered"},{"content":"'Faustin'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Signed"}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"In this set the ex-Emperor and Empress are represented as Monsieur and Madame Pipelet, the door-keepers in Eugène Sue's novel Mystères de Paris, whose name has since been adopted for concierges in general. The caricature of Eugénie plays on the similarity between the words <i>cour</i> a court or courtyard and <i>Coeur</i>, heart. That of Napoleon plays on the double meaning of the word <i>plumeau</i>, either a feather duster or an old has-been.","briefDescription":"'Madame Pipelet'.  Satirical illustration by Faustin Betbeder in which the Empress Eugénie is depicted as Madame Pipelet holding a dustpan and brush.  Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Lambert, Susan, <u>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</u>, London, V&A, 1971","id":"AUTH353267"},"details":"","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962</u>. 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