A French cook making a fricassee [graphic].

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Title: A French cook making a fricassee [graphic].
Creator: Stevenart, P., printmaker
Contributor: Darling, William, 1737-1789, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 March 1771]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd according to act, March 1, 1771, by W. Darling, engraver in Great Newport Street
Abstract: A scowling woman with hair growing on her chin is adding salt to a steaming pan filled with frogs. She wears a huge cap and clothes that have holes in them. She is using one of her voluminous sleeves as a pan holder, dipping its tip in the food inside
Description: Title from item.
Attribution to Stevenart from an unverified card catalog record.French cook making a fricassee [graphic].
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Cooks: French female cook -- Kitchen utensils: pan for fricassee -- Food: fricassee from frogs -- French female shoes.
Watermark: partially cut off Strasburg lily.
Note on verso: 'Ld B' Album.
Provenance: Peter Murray Hill, Chelsea, London ; Oct. 1957 ;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 18.7 x 11.9 cm, on sheet 23 x 16 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1771
Etchings England London 1771
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1771
England > London > 1771

Access: Public
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