Title from caption below image. and Place and date of publication based on similarity to portraits in: Perrault, C. Les hommes illustrés qui ont paru en France pendant ce siècle, 1696-1700.
Title etched below image., Imprint from British Museum catalogue., Plate from a series of twelve caricature portraits: Collection des grands hommes qui se sont le plus distingués dans la Marine Anglaise. Paris : Esnauts et Rapilly., and Description based on imperfect impression. Lewis Walpole Library lacking second portrait on the right, Jonsthone a San Jago.
A companion plate to Le Départ (British Museum satire no. 12362), satirizing the haste of the English to visit France in 1814 and their gluttony and bad dressing. The Frenchman who cooks a cat is a subject of English caricatures on the favourite theme of the beggarly Frenchman and well-fed Englishman. In this print. "A lean Englishman strides on to the quayside from an (invisible) gangway leading to the deck of a packet, which is seen below (right), covered with the heads of passengers, looking eagerly upwards. The furled sails and rigging are on the extreme right; a dove holding an olive-branch sits on a spar. A jovial French cook leads the Englishman, who grasps his left wrist; he points to a doorway on the extreme left, below the sign 'Au Bien Venu'. He holds the white cotton night-cap which was the cap of the French cook, but is not foppish as in English caricature, but manly and sturdy. The traveller is a grotesque figure wearing a hat shaped like a flower-pot, [this hat appears in almost all satires on English costumes in Paris, c. 1814; it is worn by a man dressed à l'Anglais in No. 53 of the 'Bon Genre Series' (? 1813): 'Cheveux à Cherubin. Chapeau en pot à fleurs. Redingote en Robe de Chambre'; cf. J.-P. de Bérenger, 'Les Boxeurs', 1814: Quoique leurs chapeaux sont bien laids / Goddam! moi j'aime les Anglais] long tail-coat, wrinkled breeches, and long ill-fitting gaiters on very thin legs. His profile has an absurdly heavy chin (cf. British Museum no. 12364), and he registers eager expectation. On a flap projecting from a window beside the door are peaches, grapes, pears, &c. Within a courtyard a second cook leans from an attic window, knife in hand, to catch a cat by the tail, one of several scampering from the ridge-pole."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Description from impression in the British Museum catalogue., Lettered "Déposé" below image left., Attributed to printmaker Godisart de Cari and publisher Martinet. See British Museum catalogue., This plate was deposited by Martinet on 1 February 1815, although his name is not actually lettered on the plate. It is a pair to 'Le départ' (British Museum number 1868,0822.7249)., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of text at lower left and portions of the image at the corners: irregular sheet 18.8 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Topic):
History, Foreign public opinion, National characteristics, English, National characteristics, French, Cats, Cooks, Doves, Eating & drinking, Ethnic stereotypes, Gluttony, and Mail steamers
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and "Chez Aubert & du Journal la caricature au magazin de caricautres, Galerie Véro-Dodat"
Publisher:
Chez Aubert and Lith. de Delaporte St. de Langtamé
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., "Chez Aubert & du Journal la caricature au magazin de caricautres, Galerie Véro-Dodat", and Plate numbered in upper right corner: No. 11.
Publisher:
Chez Aubert and Lith. de Delaporte St. de Langtamé
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., "Chez Aubert & du Journal la caricature au magazin de caricautres, Galerie Véro-Dodat", Print numbered in upper right corner: No. 9., and Temporary local subject terms: Fabrics -- Women's clothing -- Fashion.
Publisher:
Chez Aubert and Lith. de Delaporte St. de Langtamé
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins on two sides., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Title from item., First part of title etched above image, the second half below., Date transcribed from card catalog., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on 29 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Depose a la Bibliot. Nat. Rue Montmartre No. 132 et a Londres chez H. Humphrey St. James Street No. 27
"Copy of a French print. Two fantastically dressed couples dance, but in different manners. One pair (left) dance side by side, the man's right arm on his partner's waist, her left arm on his shoulder. The other couple face each other, the lady leaning outwards, hands on her partner's shoulders, while his left hand touches the back of her shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Bon genre, 1810
Description:
Title from text above and below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Matted to 47 x 62 cm.
Publisher:
Dépose à la Bibliot. Nat., Rue Montmartre, No. 132, et à Londres, chéz H. Humphrey, St. James Street, No. 27