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Thier's shadow resembles the shape of a pear.  Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes.  Each volume is half-bound in red leather, gold tooled and stamped with imperial emblems, title etc.\nPrint from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes.  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Derrière le Rideau.'","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":"'ED'","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 with monogram"},{"content":"","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Most prints in this set are lettered with the names of artists and printers and have captions"}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"'La Comédie Politique'.  Satirical illustration  by 'ED' showing Jules Favre and Adolphe Thiers standing in front of a curtain openly weeping.  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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