Limpeacuterial cambrioleur – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Limpeacuterial cambrioleur. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Limpeacuterial cambrioleur
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Here the French artist Eug Courboin casts Germany's Crown Prince Wilhelm as a common burglar, a caricature meant to shame him as a thief of French property. The lithograph is dated 1914, the first year of the war, when Wilhelm led a German army in the invasion of France. It appeared in a series titled *Les estampes populaires*, cheap color prints aimed at ordinary readers, so its crude humor and bold color were designed to be understood quickly on the street. Posters like this helped turn the war into a moral story about German aggression, with the enemy's royal family cast as criminals.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph color ; 36 x 43 cm. |
| Notes | Translation of title: The imperial thief. Signed: Eug Courboin. Les eacutestampes populaires G.W.D. - No. 3. Promotional goal: Fr. J49. 1914. Item is no. 148 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room. AGE · Rehse Archiv fuumlr Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik former owner. DLC |
| Subjects | William Crown Prince of Germany 1882-1951. Robberies--France--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Posters: Artist Posters |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 2,798 px · prints to 14 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1497_Limpeacuterial_cambriol_1914 |
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