Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[1746]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of Madame du Deffand's room and two cats, with one cat standing on an armchair at center and the other on the floor. The two animals face one another in apparent aggression, both having one paw raised and tail extended and fluffed. A fireplace is seen at right, behind which are a small bureau and wall-mounted bookshelf. In the center background is a window; part of a bed or sofa is visible behind a curtain in the left background
Alternative Title:
Madame du Deffand's cats and S'ils ont griffes et dents, ils en font bon usage ...
Description:
Title from Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Ch. Nic. Cochin fils; alternative title devised by curator., Designed and engraved in 1746 by Charles Nicolas Cochin; see Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Ch. Nic. Cochin fils., Verses by the president Hénault etched below image: S'ils ont griffes et dents, ils en font bon usage, On leur imputte à tort et ruse et trahison; Ils sont gays, caressans: la grace est leur partage, Qui les craints, s'en repent: qui s'y fie à raison., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 64 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780 and Hénault, Charles-Jean-François, 1685-1770.
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Interiors, Cats, Furniture, and Fireplaces
A man in a coat with military facings, identified as Woodford Rice, stands in the middle of a room holding in his left hand a book open to the title page, "The Rutland Volunteers," and with a frontispiece that is a copy of this print. In the background, a military hat and a sword lie on a chair, togetehr with table with writing materials on it. Above the table hangs a plan depicting General Burgoyne's position against the French and Spanish armies at Villa Vellia Ford in 1762 where Captain Rice distiguished himself in the battle
Description:
Title and publication date from no. 6316, of which this print appears to be a variant. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Rice, Woodford, -1784.
Subject (Topic):
Authors, Furniture, Inkstands, and Clothing & dress