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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'.<br><br><b>People</b><br>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.","physicalDescription":"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.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Albert Ludovici II","id":"A8633"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Hildesheimer & Faulkner","id":"A9121"},"association":{"text":"printer and publisher","id":"x35446"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"lithographic ink","id":"AAT187750"}],"techniques":[{"text":"colour lithography","id":"AAT190525"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Colour lithograph on card","categories":[{"text":"Greeting cards","id":"THES48944"},{"text":"Satire","id":"THES250449"},{"text":"Caricatures & Cartoons","id":"THES48983"},{"text":"Christmas","id":"THES48977"},{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"},{"text":"Gender and Sexuality","id":"THES48940"},{"text":"Interiors","id":"THES48933"},{"text":"Furniture","id":"THES48948"},{"text":"Womenswear","id":"THES49044"},{"text":"Hats & headwear","id":"THES48943"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006AT0938"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLC","id":"THES49171"},"free":"","case":"GG","shelf":"68","box":"D"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"print","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"printed and published","id":"x35383"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1881","earliest":"1881-01-01","latest":"1881-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by Guy Tristram Little","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"12.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"unframed","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"8.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions checked: measured; 10/10/2000 by PaperCons","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Designed by Albert Ludovici, II (born in Prague,1852, died in1932); printed and published by Hildesheimer & Faulkner, London\nDesigned by Albert Ludovici, II (born in Prague, 1852, died in 1932); printed and published by  Hildesheimer & Faulkner, London","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Albert Ludovici. An aesthetic lady with a teapot. One of four cards from the \"Quite too-too!\" set, published by Hildesheimer & Faulkner, London, 1881.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1953 </u> London: HMSO, 1963"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"British Galleries:\nGREETINGS CARDS caricaturing the Aesthetic style<br>\nInexpensive printed cards with Aesthetic themes like these show how widely recognised the movement had become by the 1880s. In one, the title and the pose of the young man ridicule the intensity of emotions associated with such individuals as Oscar Wilde. In the other, the importance of art for its own sake is made fun of with the woman's intense interest in an everyday object, a teapot.  Her fashionable clothing shows the influence of classical dress.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["E.2415-1953"],"accessionNumberNum":"2415","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1953,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LM5224","2019LP1390","2019LP0799"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-10-07","recordCreationDate":"2003-03-27","availableToBook":false}}