Adolphe Thiers as an obstetrician holding up a baby boy just delivered of a pregnant woman representing France. Colour line block by Lefman after A. Gill, 1872.

  • Gill, André, 1840-1885.
Date:
4 Août 1872
Reference:
657723i
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Previous title, replaced March 2024 : A physician holding up a baby boy just delivered of a pregnant woman. Colour line block by Lefman after A. Gill, 1872.

Description

The baby represents the money demanded by Germany from France as reparation for the Franco-Prussian war.The baby is swaddled in papers inscribed "41 milliards", the sum to be restituted by France to Germany. The preceding examination of the pregnant woman is shown in the previous week's issue dated 28 July 1872: see Wellcome Library catalogue no. 657722i

Publication/Creation

Paris (Bureaux 16, rue du Croissant, 16) : [L'Eclipse], 4 Août 1872.

Physical description

1 print : colour line block ; image and border 35.5 x 29.8 cm

Lettering

La délivrance, par Gill. And. Gill. Lefman sc. L'Eclipse ...

References note

The picture of health: images of medicine and pharmacy from the William H. Helfand Collection; commentaries by William H. Helfand; essays by Patricia Eckert Boyer, Judith Wechsler, and Maurice Rickards, Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1991, pp. 86-87

Reference

Wellcome Collection 657723i

Reproduction note

Parody of Eugène Devéria's painting of the birth of Henri IV, painted in 1827 and acquired by the Louvre in 1828

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