Les étrennes, ou, La petite vèrole [graphic]

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Title: Les étrennes, ou, La petite vèrole [graphic]
Alternative Title: Petite vèrole
Contributor: Gautier.
Published / Created: [approximately 1815?]
Publication Place: A Paris
Publisher: Chez Gautier rue Poupée, no. 7
Abstract: A well-dressed young woman visiting her smallpocked uncle, delivers three oranges. Dressed in a robe and nightcap, he sits in a upholstered chair with his feet on a pillow, his face and hands covered in pustules; beside him is a table with a pitcher, glass and carafe. On the wall behind is a landscape; to the left a fireplace
Description: Title engraved below image.
An 'E' enclosed within a heart, etched lower left below image.
Date from Bibliothèque nationale de France.
"Déposé à la direction Gale."
Mounted on secondary support.
Provenance: 2000.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 22.3 x 27 cm
Language: French

Genre: Humorous pictures
Satires (Visual works) France 1815
Etchings France Paris 1815
Material: etching with stipple ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): France.
Subject (Topic): Smallpox
Diseases
Sick persons
Clothing & dress
Sick
Visiting the sick
Subjects: Smallpox
Diseases
Sick persons
Clothing & dress > France
Sick
Visiting the sick
France
France > 1815
France > Paris > 1815

Access: Public
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