The 254th Territorial Regiment marching through Compeigne 1914 (Signed) (Numbered Limited Edition Print)

The 254th Territorial Regiment marching through Compeigne 1914 art by Albert Robida

The 254th Territorial Regiment marching through Compeigne 1914 (Signed) (Numbered Limited Edition Print)


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Artist: Albert Robida
Medium: Numbered Limited edition Etching on Paper
Size: 6" x 9" (160mm x 240mm)
Date: 1914
Signature: Signed by artist lower left
Code: RobidaXX

This is a Signed Limited edition print.

This is a beautiful etching signed and numbered by the artist #59/120 and signed lower left.

The image depicts the 254th Territorial Regiment marching through Compeigne in August 1914.

Signed by the artist Albert Robida (1848 - 1926).
  • Artist Biography
    Albert Robida (14 May 1848 - 11 October 1926; Compiègne, France)
    Albert Robida was a French illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, and novelist. He edited and published La Caricature magazine for 12 years. Through the 1880s he wrote an acclaimed trilogy of futuristic novels. In the 1900s he created 520 illustrations for Pierre Giffard's weekly serial La Guerre Infernale.

    He was born in Compiègne, France, the son of a carpenter. He studied to become a notary, but was more interested in caricature. In 1866 he joined Journal amusant as an illustrator. In 1880, with Georges Decaux, he founded his own magazine La Caricature, which he edited for 12 years. He illustrated tourist guides, works of popular history, and literary classics.

    His fame disipated after World War I but he was rediscovered thanks to his trilogy of futuristic works:
    Le Vingtième Siècle (1883)
    La Guerre au vingtième siècle (1887)
    Le Vingtième siècle. La vie électrique (1890)

    These works drew comparison with Jules Verne. Unlike Verne, he proposed inventions integrated into everyday life, not creations of mad scientists, and he imagined the social developments that arose from them, often with uncanny accuracy: social advancement of women, mass tourism, pollution, etc. His La Guerre au vingtième siècle describes modern warfare, with robotic missiles and poison gas. His Téléphonoscope was a flat screen television display that delivered the latest news 24-hours a day, the latest plays, courses, and teleconferences.

    Robida illustrated two works by Pierre Giffard: La Fin du Cheval ("The End of the Horse"), on the inevitable replacement of the horse by the bicycle and then by the car.

    La Guerre Infernale ("The Infernal War"), a 1908 serial adventure novel for children that appeared weekly every Saturday. Robida contributed 520 illustrations.The novel is set in the future and features uncanny parallels to World War Two, including an attack on London by Germany and a conflict between Japan and the United States. It was subsequently republished as a book.

    Robida died 11 October 1926 in Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France.

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