A French emigrant cook begging for a slice of English beef [graphic].

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Title: A French emigrant cook begging for a slice of English beef [graphic].
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker, artist
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 March 1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd 1st March 1794 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
Abstract: A scene in a kitchen showing a French male cook on his knees beside a cross-looking female cook holding a spatula. In the background, a roaring fire in the hearth with a slab of beef on a spit
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker attribution to Isaac Cruikshank from Rosenbach. For the original watercolor drawing by Cruikshank, see Huntington Library object number: 71.79.72.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression at the Bodleian Library, shelfmark: Curzon b.02(065).
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; September 2023.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 19.5 x 23 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English