Amusements des Anglais à Paris [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Amusements des Anglais à Paris [graphic].
- Contributor
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Roehn, Jean Alphonse, 1799-1864, artist.
Martinet, Aaron, 1762-1841, publisher. - Published / Created
- [between 1814 and 1815]
- Publication Place
- A Paris
- Publisher
- Chez Martinet, Libraire, Rue de Coq St. Honoré
- Abstract
-
"A grossly obese John Bull and his lean and ugly wife, both wearing hats, sit on upright chairs, gormandizing. The man holds a whole chicken to his mouth, taking a huge bite. The woman (left) faces him, biting a large melon which she holds with both hands to an enormous mouth. He is morosely savage, she is melancholy; both are gap-toothed. On the ground (right) by the man's chair are collected a ham or gigot, a large irregular (?) galantine, a raised pie: 'pâté de périgueux', a huge jar of 'vin de lafitte' round which four bottles are grouped: 'frontignac', 'Clos de Vouge[ot]', and '. . . seac'. Beside the woman are a basket and tray filled with grapes, peaches, and pears. Through a wide doorway (left) the street is seen with a seated fruit-seller who serves three grotesquely hideous Englishwomen. Two are lank and emaciated, one tries to stuff a big peach into an immense mouth, holding an armful of grapes and peaches; the other gnaws at a bunch of grapes held in both hands. The third, also with bulging cheeks, bites a peach. The fruit-seller's tray is empty; she holds out her last peach. All the women wear small absurd hats or caps, tight long-waisted bodices (coloured) with long white skirts (cf. No. 12359)."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Print attributed to Alphonse Roehn in the British Museum catalogue.
Date and series name from British Museum online catalogue.
"Déposé à la Don Gle de l'Imprimerie." - Provenance
- Justin Croft; April 2024.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 25.1 x 35 cm, on sheet 26.8 x 39 cm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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French
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 814.11.00.01
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) France 1814
Etchings France Paris 1814 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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John Bull (Symbolic character)
Eating & drinking
Ethnic stereotypes
Obesity
Women - Subjects
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John Bull (Symbolic character) > Caricatures and cartoons
Eating & drinking
Ethnic stereotypes
Obesity
Women
France > 1814
France > Paris > 1814
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 17360333
- Object ID (OID)
- 33224077