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Title: A famous cook! : One eye on the pot & the other on the table!!
Creator: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created: [1840s?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A cook stirring a liquid from a bottle into his bowl, his right eyeball looking down at the table and his left eyeball looking to the side at a pot steaming on the hot fire in the hearth
Description: Title from text below image.
Signed in lower left corner with the initials of printmaker Charles Jameson Grant.
Approximate date of publication from dealer's description.
Mounted on an album sheet; portrait of Mrs. Elizabeth Woodcock on verso.
Provenance: Grosvenor Prints; May 2025.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 27.5 x 19.6 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 840.00.00.85

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1840
Lithographs England London 1840
Material: lithograph ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Cooks
Cookery
Pots & pans
Tables
Fireplaces
Subjects: Cooks
Cookery
Pots & pans
Tables
Fireplaces
England > 1840
England > London > 1840

Access And Usage Rights

Access: Public

Identifiers

Catalog Record: 99176961143408651
Object ID (OID): 33407712

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