Souvenir des Fetes Franco-Italiennes

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Paris: P. Gayda, 1903.

A souvenir for a fête celebrating Franco-Italian relations, on crêped paper and with decorative margins woodblock-printed in Japan. The margins - four humorous "comic strips" read right to left and top to bottom - feature what appear to be sisters having their ponytails tied together by a child, a man falling for a child's prank and losing his hat, a man losing a sumō bout to a frog, and a woman accidentally hitting a man with her hagoita (battledore) raquet. The central portraits are believed to depict Émile Loubet, the President of the French Republic, and his wife, Madame Loubet. The paper was originally perfumed by the Parfumerie des Galeries St-Martin.

One leaf, complete. Creases, wear, marks, a few small holes. Movable-type mis-registered. 43 x 31.2 cm. Text in French.

Souvenir des Fetes Franco-Italiennes
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