La curiosité punie aventure hydrauli-comique et vraie / [graphic]

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Title: La curiosité punie aventure hydrauli-comique et vraie / [graphic]
Creator: Godissart de Cari, 1774-1848, printmaker
Contributor: Martinet, Aaron, 1762-1841, publisher.
Published / Created: [22 November 1817]
Publication Place: A Paris
Publisher: Chez Martinet Libre., rue de Coq no.15
Abstract: "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.
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.
Provenance: Sold at Forum Auctions, 16 March 2017, lot 80. Purchased through Jarndyce; March 2017.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 21.7 x 26 cm
Language: French

Genre: Etchings France Paris 1817
Satires (Visual works) France 1817
Material: etching, hand-colored ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Bathrooms
Curiosity
Lust
Water guns
Women domestics
Subjects: Bathrooms
Curiosity
Lust
Water guns
Women domestics
France > Paris > 1817
France > 1817

Access: Public
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