File:Frontispice (BM 1903,1118.18).jpg
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Title |
Frontispice |
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Description |
English: Frontispiece vignette of with two men in rocky landscape, to right pulling laden donkey, to left in boat; illustration to 'Fables et Contes' by Hippolyte de Thierry-Faletans. 1868
Lithograph |
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Depicted people | Illustration to: Hippolyte de Thierry-Faletans | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1868 date QS:P571,+1868-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1903,1118.18 |
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Notes |
(Text from 'From Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec', BM 1978, cat.3) After 1861 Bresdin abandoned lithography for several years. He was persuaded to take it up again in 1868 by a commission from the eccentric Comte de Faletans to illustrate a book of fables that he had written. The history of this commission is comic; Bresdin and Faletans never met, and correspondence had to travel from Paris to Bordeaux. Faletans issued absurd instructions about what was to be drawn, and continually refused Bresdin's proofs. This frontispiece was turned down in a (lost) earlier state. Bresdin then vented his fury on the image, writing on the stone where the title was to be: 'Calvaire du vieux Caillou' and 'Ha qui me delivrera des pigouffes'. Later, in 1878, he substituted an even more bitter inscription on the rock: 'Je porte cette pierre depuis 50 ans'. He did however make a new title-page and six other prints which were accepted. The book, when finally published in 1871, was hardly a success, as only one copy is now known. The style of the frontispiece - a window framed by foliage - was not uncommon in nineteenth-century book illustration. A close parallel is provided by the frontispiece to the 1838 Curmer edition of Saint-Pierre's 'Paul et Virginie'. This was perhaps the most famous French illustrated book of its period, and was well known to Bresdin. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1903-1118-18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
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