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About the Artwork

La Civilisation Anglaise from Le Grelot

This La Civilisation Anglaise print reproduces a political illustration by Alfred Le Petit for Le Grelot. The cover, published on 24 September 1882, depicts Queen Victoria wearing a crown and red robes while holding a bottle labeled gin. Its newspaper masthead and large headline give the scene a distinctly editorial setting.

Artwork and design

Heavy outlines and broad red and yellow areas sharpen the cartoon’s silhouette against a black background. The seated figure fills most of the picture, while smaller figures crowd the lower edge. Above them, the elaborate masthead introduces a contrasting band of fine line work and closely spaced type.

About this design

The illustration uses caricature to criticize British imperial power. The figures beneath Victoria represent territories and peoples subjected to that power, and the gin bottle contributes to the attack. Its exaggerated bodies and period stereotypes belong to nineteenth-century political satire and call for a historically informed reading of the image.

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La Civilisation Anglaise – Alfred Le Petit Le Grelot Satire

Alfred Le Petit’s La Civilisation Anglaise places a caricature of Queen Victoria beneath the Le Grelot masthead. Red, black and yellow give this 1882 political illustration a forceful graphic presence.

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