Germans eating sour-krout [graphic] / Js. Gillray inv. & fect.


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Title
Germans eating sour-krout [graphic] / Js. Gillray inv. & fect.
Alternative Title
Germans eating sauerkraut
Creator
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Published / Created
1803 May 7
Copyright Date
[7 May 1803]
Publication Place
[London]
Publisher
H. Humprey, No. 27 St. James's Street
Abstract
"Five Germans seated at a round table, gormandize savagely on cabbage and sausages. Three are grossly fat and coarse-featured and plebeian; one of these (r.) has tucked the table-cloth round his neck (cf. BMSat 8145). A lean military officer sits in back view plying spoon and fork with elbows raised; a lean dog laps from his plate, one paw on his knee the other on the table. Cocked hat and sword are on the ground beside him. A thin and elderly man of more polished appearance puts down his head to the mound of greenery on his plate, which he shovels up with spoon and fork; his knife lies on the table-cloth. His hat and gold-headed cane are under his stool. A fat cook enters (l.) carrying a large steaming dish piled high with sauerkraut and sausages. On the table are a 'Vinegar' bottle and fragments from over-full plates. On the wall are a map of 'The Mouths of the Rhine', showing the 'German Ocean'; an oval bust portrait of 'Arch-Duke Charles' [see BMSat 8835], with a gross profile resembling that given by Gillray to the Duke of Clarence; a picture of a row of pigs whose heads emerge from sties to feed in a trough. On the floor are large tankards, a broken pipe, a pile of used plates which a cat is licking, a 'Bill of Fare - 1st Course Sour Krout - 2d Course Sour Krout - 3d Course Sour Krout - Desert Sour Krout.' Tankards and plates are inscribed 'Weyler Castle Street.'"--British Museum online catalogue.
Description
Title etched below image.
Extent
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.1 x 36.2 cm, on sheet 27 x 40 cm
Extent of Digitization
Completely digitized
Language
English

Collection Information

Call Number
Auchincloss Gillray v. 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
still image
Genre
Etchings--England--London--1803.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1803.
Subject (Name)
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Charles,--Archduke of Austria,--1771-1847--Caricatures and cartoons.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.

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Citation
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 10170, Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 518, and Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 307

Identifiers

Orbis Record
8394842
OID
11861150

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