1872 RARE CARICATURE NEWSPAPER by Artist ANDRE GILL - ULYSSES S GRANT

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1872 RARE CARICATURE NEWSPAPER by Artist ANDRE GILL - ULYSSES S GRANT:
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L\'Éclipse was a French magazine of the nineteenth century, appearing from 1868 to 1876. Edited by Francis Polo, L\'Éclipse was a showcase for the illustrator André Gill, in which he drew caricatures of his illustrious contemporaries

Napoleon III disliked the portrait of him drawn by Gill in La Lune. In December 1867, the journal was censored. \"La Lune will have to undergo an eclipse,\" an authority commented to Editor Francis Polo when the ban was instituted, unwittingly dubbing Polo\'s subsequent publication: L\'Eclipse, which made its first appearance on 9 August 1868.

L\'Éclipse would itself suffer from twenty-two seizures by the law. It consisted only of one page, due to governmental restrictions.

André Gill (17 October 1840 – 1 May 1885) was a French caricaturist. Born Louis-Alexandre Gosset de Guînes at Paris, the son of the Comte de Guînes and Sylvie-Adeline Gosset. Gill studied at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. He adopted the pseudonym André Gill in homage to his hero, James Gillray.[1] Gill began illustrating for Le Journal Amusant. Gill, however, became known for his work for the weekly four-sheet newspaper La Lune, edited by Francis Polo, in which he drew portraits for a series entitled The Man of the Day. He worked for La Lune from 1865 to 1868. When La Lune was banned, he worked for the periodical L\'Éclipse from 1868 to 1876. Gill also drew for famous periodical Le Charivari.