Marie Duval

Marie Duval
BornIsabelle Émilie de Tessier
25 September 1847
London, England
Died11 June 1890
London, England
Area(s)Cartoonist
Pseudonym(s)Princess Hesse Schwartzbourg, Ambrose Clarke, Noir
Notable works
Ally Sloper
Spouse(s)Charles Henry Ross

Isabelle Émilie de Tessier (25 September 1847 – 11 June 1890), who worked under the pseudonyms Marie Duval and Ambrose Clarke, was a British cartoonist, known as co-creator of the seminal cartoon character Ally Sloper, the popular character was spun off into his own comic, Ally Sloper's Half Holiday, in 1884.