Le toucher [graphic]Godissart de Cari, 1774-1848, printmaker[not before March 1817]freA man with lecherous look on his face, his tongue between his teeth and with a large grin, reaches his hand between the curtains of a canopy bed, his other hand raised. Behind him leaning against a coat tossed on a chair is a bed warmer. On the dresser behind him is a bust of a woman with a feathered headdress. On the small chest at the foot of the bed is a basket with a lidTitle etched below image.Series title and number from impression in Les Musèes de la Ville de Paris.Printmaker's name etched in image, at bottom of bureau.Date based on Plate 15, which was entered in the 'Bibliographie de France' for 29 March 1817.Dimensions from the impression in Les Musèes de la Ville de Paris."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.Sheet trimmed to image: 21 x 13.7 cm.