Autour de Compiègne en Août 1914 Série de 7 eaux fortes documentaires avec texte

ROBIDA, A.

Edité par France S.P. 1915

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First edition. Hardback slipcase with engrave plates. Limited edition of only 125, (this is copy #113). Each plate is signed, the titles are hand written in pencil by Robida, at the foot of the card: "Les Evacués italiens", "Départ des territoriaux", "Le dernier jour du Pont de Compiègne", "les Fugitifs", "Le Prisonnier", "Convoi belge échappé de Namur", "Le Premier Taube!" The cream slipcase has a pasted on title sheet, with a view of soldier on a quayside looking at a destroyed bridge. A little darkening and marking to the boards, and the spine of the folder is quite damaged. This has been reinforced from the inside with archival tape. Original closure ties are present. Inside, the work is in a stiff card folder (slightly darkened) with a title showing soldiers marching past a cathedral. This is signed by Robida in pencil. The first gather is the text sheets (4 pages, three of which are printed) with the image from the front board replicated. This is darkened to the edges, but clean. The seven plates are in lovely condition, each with a tissue guard. A scarce piece of world war one illustration. Compiègne, in the Oise department, was Robida s home town. He could not have known when he created this work that Compiègne would play a deeply symbolic and strategic role as the site of the armistice that ended the conflict. The famous signing of the armistice was in the Forest of Compiègne. The town was close to the Western Front and saw many troop movements and bombardments. Albert Robida (1848 1926) was a French illustrator, caricaturist, lithographer, and novelist, celebrated both as an artist and as a visionary social commentator of the Belle Époque period. In 1880, Robida co-founded and edited La Caricature.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Autour de Compiègne en Août 1914 Série de 7 eaux fortes documentaires avec texte
• Éditeur: France S.P. 1915
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur