Jean-Faustin Betbeder - Caricatures
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Title: London Sketch Book Caricatures
Publication: The London Sketch Book
Date: c.1873-1875
Description: A set of 8 chromolithographs including:
Queen Victoria
Rt. Hon. W.E. Gladstone, M.P.
Rt. Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, M.P.
Sir Alexander Cockburn, Chief Justice of England
Rt. Hon. John Bright, M.P.
Rt. Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P.
Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor of London (Lusk)
H.R.H. Count de Chambord
Condition: Removed from their separate border paper, minor age related stains and some light creases. Colours and imprints good. Scarce.
Image size: 146 x 67mm, 5.75 x 2.75" each
£200.00 set
Order No. 9585
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Jean-Faustin Betbeder 1847-c.1912
French caricaturist, draughtsman, painter and photographer. Signs work with his first name or intitial 'F' only. At the Ecole des Beaux-Arts until 1870. Died in London.
Faustin Betbeder was born in Soissons. He became an artist, noted for his unflattering caricatures of personalities from both sides of the Franco-Prussian war and its aftermath. He had difficulty in finding a publisher for the first set of these in 1870 and finally published them himself, selling over 50,000 copies. After the war he moved to Britain where he produced a less political series of caricatures of well-known British personalities to be published in The London Sketch-book, "An illustrated newspaper and magazine" published from 1873 until 1874 by James Mortimer, editor of The London Figaro.
Guaranteed original antique prints, we do not sell modern reproductions.