Beef a la mode [graphic]

Description

Title: Beef a la mode [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [14 February 1800]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publishd Febry. 14, 1800, by R. Akerman, No. 101 Strand
Abstract: An imitation of the celebrated Paris sign-board of the restaurant Au Boeuf à la mode, rue de Valois, of which there is a French print. ... A cow wearing a hat, cravat, and shawl gazes to the right. On hind-legs (left) are boots of Hessian type, on the fore-legs cross-gartered slippers; a miniature of a bull hangs from her neck. Rowlandson's design has more resemblance to and probably derives from another version of this subject, engraved by Leclerc after Laucon ...
Description: Title etched below image.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. viii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 22.2 x 27.2 cm, on sheet 27 x 32 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings England London 1800
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Animals in human situations
Bonnets
Cows
Jewelry
Signs (Notices)
Slippers
Subjects: Animals in human situations
Bonnets
Cows
Jewelry
Signs (Notices)
Slippers
England > 1800
England > London > 1800

Access: Public
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