Title from caption below image. and Place and date of publication based on similarity to portraits in: Perrault, C. Les hommes illustrés qui ont paru en France pendant ce siècle, 1696-1700.
"Portrait of French fabulist Jean de la Fontaine, half-length, facing front with head turned to the left; in oval frame with coat of arms in lower part; illustration for Perrault's 'Les Hommes illustres'. c.1695/1700."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: R,6.244., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and In paper frame: 393 x 258 mm.
Title from item., Publication date from the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed to and within plate mark., Three lines of text below title: Le 25 janvier 1774 la populace irritée pénétra sans armes dans sa maison. Il blessa plusieurs personnes à coups dépée: mais les Bostoniens, modéré jusques dans leur vengeance ... Followed by twenty-five lines (in two columns) of descirption titled Origine de la Revolution Américaine., Plate from: Recueil d'Estampes représantant ... la guerre qui a procuré l'indépendance aux États unis ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Taxes: customs duties -- Customs officers -- American colonies: Boston -- Street scenes -- Vehicles: cart -- Spectators -- Torture: tarring and feathering.
Publisher:
Chez Mr. Godefroy rue des Francs-bourgeois, Porte St., Michel et chez Mr. Ponce, rue St. Hiacinte, No. 19, A.P.D.R.
Title etched below image., Imprint from British Museum catalogue., Plate from a series of twelve caricature portraits: Collection des grands hommes qui se sont le plus distingués dans la Marine Anglaise. Paris : Esnauts et Rapilly., and Description based on imperfect impression. Lewis Walpole Library lacking second portrait on the right, Jonsthone a San Jago.
Allegorical caricature: Two couples approach a Cupid-like statue of a man with wings that has come alive; he wears a wig and carries a bow and a torch (extinguishing as he holds in downwards); he stands on a plinth hung with bags of money, an open chest with coins at its base and to the side sits a cat. On the tree behind (right) a sign reading "Coeur a vendreau, a louer au plus offrant &c dernier encherisseur" hangs from a heart pinned to the trunk on which a snake is curled hissing at the animated statue. The two couples are mismatched in age, in the center a handsome young officer stands with a withered old woman and on the left, a young woman with a fat, old man who holds a bag of coins. On the far left a turkey follows the procession
Description:
Title engraved below image., "Déposé à la Bibliolthêque."--Following imprint., Date from citation in: Journal général de la littérautre de France, 12è année, p. 58., and Mounted on secondary support. With mirror image ms. notes on verso, illegible.
Publisher:
Chez Noel Fréres rue des Prétres, St. Germain l'Auxerois, no. 22. Rue St. Jacques no. 16
A companion plate to Le Départ (British Museum satire no. 12362), satirizing the haste of the English to visit France in 1814 and their gluttony and bad dressing. The Frenchman who cooks a cat is a subject of English caricatures on the favourite theme of the beggarly Frenchman and well-fed Englishman. In this print. "A lean Englishman strides on to the quayside from an (invisible) gangway leading to the deck of a packet, which is seen below (right), covered with the heads of passengers, looking eagerly upwards. The furled sails and rigging are on the extreme right; a dove holding an olive-branch sits on a spar. A jovial French cook leads the Englishman, who grasps his left wrist; he points to a doorway on the extreme left, below the sign 'Au Bien Venu'. He holds the white cotton night-cap which was the cap of the French cook, but is not foppish as in English caricature, but manly and sturdy. The traveller is a grotesque figure wearing a hat shaped like a flower-pot, [this hat appears in almost all satires on English costumes in Paris, c. 1814; it is worn by a man dressed à l'Anglais in No. 53 of the 'Bon Genre Series' (? 1813): 'Cheveux à Cherubin. Chapeau en pot à fleurs. Redingote en Robe de Chambre'; cf. J.-P. de Bérenger, 'Les Boxeurs', 1814: Quoique leurs chapeaux sont bien laids / Goddam! moi j'aime les Anglais] long tail-coat, wrinkled breeches, and long ill-fitting gaiters on very thin legs. His profile has an absurdly heavy chin (cf. British Museum no. 12364), and he registers eager expectation. On a flap projecting from a window beside the door are peaches, grapes, pears, &c. Within a courtyard a second cook leans from an attic window, knife in hand, to catch a cat by the tail, one of several scampering from the ridge-pole."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Description from impression in the British Museum catalogue., Lettered "Déposé" below image left., Attributed to printmaker Godisart de Cari and publisher Martinet. See British Museum catalogue., This plate was deposited by Martinet on 1 February 1815, although his name is not actually lettered on the plate. It is a pair to 'Le départ' (British Museum number 1868,0822.7249)., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of text at lower left and portions of the image at the corners: irregular sheet 18.8 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, National characteristics, English, National characteristics, French, Cats, Cooks, Doves, Eating & drinking, Ethnic stereotypes, Gluttony, and Mail steamers
A very thin, fobbish man with a walking stick tucked under his arm, walks down a staircase, smelling the tip of his finger (one of a sub-series of the Five Senses)"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Lettered in the image 'G de Cari' twice and 'Maleuvre sculp' once., Series title and number from caption above image., Description based on imperfect impression. Series title and numbering and dimensions from impression in the British Museum., This plate was entered in the 'Bibliographie de France' for 29 March 1817. See British Museum online catalogue, Registration number: 1990,0303.23., and "The series 'Musée Grotesque' consists of at least 65 plates, made over a long period between March 1814 and August 1829. They seem all to have been designed, and in some cases etched, by Godissart de Cari, and all are placed under his name in the British Museum. The first four plates of the series, unlike the others, do not carry the heading 'Musée Grotesque' but rather 'Les Nouvellistes' and are numbered 1 to 4."--British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Libre., rue du Coq, no. 15
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, French, Odors, Staffs (Sticks), and Stairways
"Reclining figure of St Mary Magdalene, reading a book."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1837,0408.144., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 192 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., Note in pencil in lower right corner: In the cabinet., and For further information, consult library staff.
"A man spying through a key-hole at a lady in a bath is squirted with water in the eye by her maid."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Series title and numbering, imprint, statement of responsibility and dimensions from impression in the British Museum online catalogue., Signed "G de Cari" in design, on the wall in the lower right., This plate was entered in the 'Bibliographie de France' for 22 November 1817. See British Museum online catalogue, Registration number: 1982,U.1215., and Sheet trimmed within design with loss of left portion of the image (lady in the bath), the imprint statement, and series title and numbering. Title mounted below.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet Libre., rue de Coq no.15
Subject (Topic):
Bathrooms, Curiosity, Lust, Water guns, and Women domestics
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and "Chez Aubert & du Journal la caricature au magazin de caricautres, Galerie Véro-Dodat"
Publisher:
Chez Aubert and Lith. de Delaporte St. de Langtamé
