A French emigrant cook begging for a slice of English beef [graphic].
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33111800
Description
- Title
- A French emigrant cook begging for a slice of English beef [graphic].
- Creator
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker, artist
- Contributor
- Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [1 March 1794]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Publish'd 1st March 1794 by Robt. Sayer & Co., Fleet Street, London
- Abstract
-
A scene in a kitchen showing a French male cook on his knees beside a cross-looking female cook holding a spatula. In the background, a roaring fire in the hearth with a slab of beef on a spit
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Printmaker attribution to Isaac Cruikshank from Rosenbach. For the original watercolor drawing by Cruikshank, see Huntington Library object number: 71.79.72.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression at the Bodleian Library, shelfmark: Curzon b.02(065).
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. - Provenance
- Grosvenor Prints; September 2023.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 19.5 x 23 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 794.03.01.04
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1794
Etchings England London 1794
Engravings England London 1794 - Material
- etching and engraving ; and laid paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
-
Ethnic stereotypes
Kitchens
Cooks
Pleading (Begging) - Subjects
-
Ethnic stereotypes
Kitchens
Cooks
Pleading (Begging)
England > 1794
England > London > 1794
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 16787582
- Object ID (OID)
- 33111800