"Two very tall and lank Englishmen walk arm-in-arm in profile to the left; one grasps a big (red) umbrella, and looks down at a dog. Before them walks a dwarfish man holding a tall cane, perhaps a servant, but dressed in the fashion of the day apart from striped trousers. Behind walks a second couple, shorter, broader, and more cheerful. All have flower-pot hats, and all double-breasted long-tailed coats, except one of the second pair, who wears top-boots. The others wear either long tight trousers or tight gaiters reaching above the knee. Two have large bows suspended from their fobs, to which seal and watch-key are attached. Three wear neckcloths with projecting ends."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Print attributed to Alphonse Roehn in the British Museum catalogue., Date and series name from British Museum online catalogue., and "Déposé à la Don Gle de l'Imprimerie'."
Publisher:
Chez Genty, rue St. Jacques
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dogs, Ethnic stereotypes, Pedestrians, and Men
Title from caption below image., Imprint from impression at the Yale Center for British Art., Date of publication based on publisher's active dates. See British Museum online catalogue., A French copy in reverse of a print by Thomas Bowles published in 1753. See British Museum online catalogue., Text centered below image, possibly series numbering: 27e. Vue d'Optique Representant., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Description based on imperfect impression: imprint has been mostly erased from sheet and is illegible., and Mounted to 32 x 44 cm.
A thin miser stands before his desk laden ledgers (one with a label 'Avoir'), piles of papers, and bags of money and on top, at tray with carafe (of water?) and a partial loaf of bread with a knife; a ring of keys hang from the lock of the desk drawer. The large waste paper basket below the desk is filled with sheets of paper, one of which is titled "Bureau de Carite" and a letter "A Monsieur ... rue Pari[s] ...". He stands shivering, his nose and cheeks red with cold, as he ties one end of a string from a ball on the desk to a tie on his shirt which is thrown on the arm of the desk chair along with his coat. At the left on the wall above the mantel is a picture "Les Israélites adorant le veau d'or" which is signed lower left G. De Cari and lower right Maleuvre. The mantel holds a clock, two fine china cups with saucers and two candlesticks, one candle burnt low, the other unused. A thin cat looks up at him meowing. Through the window on the right is a view of the neighboring buildings
Alternative Title:
Rien qu'un
Description:
Title from caption below image., Series title and numbering from impression in the British Museum online catalogue., Dimensions from impression in the British Museum online catalogue., Lettered on the painting over the fireplace 'G de Ca' and 'Maleuvre'., This plate was entered in the 'Bibliographie de France' for 8 August 1818. Cari's original drawing, which shows numerous differences, is in the BM (1989,0128.59)., and Sheet trimmed to design with loss of series title and numbering: 19 x 23.5 cm.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet libraire Rue de Coq no.15
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Desks, Ethnic stereotypes, Avarice, and Misers
"A broadside satirising the share mania in Paris; with an etching after a French broadside by Humblot showing a street scene in the rue Quinquempoix with a crowd of people holding various papers, in the right foreground some people fighting; with engraved Dutch title, inscriptions, and verses in three columns."--British Museum online catalogue and "During the Mississippi Bubble’s heyday, trading took place on the rue Quincampoix in Paris. This print, from The Great Mirror of Folly, is based on an engraving by Antoine Humblot commemorating the street as a hub of chaos, lust, and criminality, as well as of unprecedented social mixing. The Dutch version includes foreboding rope nooses, along with placards indicating various commercial schemes as well as the emotional states of those investing in them. At right, a man is apprehended by the police, even as he passes a purloined object to his companion; at center, a woman flirts with a man while appearing to steal his wallet. From a window at left, John Law himself eyes the mayhem. The chiming bell above announces a dealer’s intention to sell."--New York Public Library website
Alternative Title:
Regte Afbeelding der Wind Negotie Gehouden in de Straat van Quinquempoix tot Parys
Description:
Title engraved in cartouche below image; subtitle in French and Dutch., Translation of the Dutch title in British Museum catalogue: A true picture of the wind trade of the rue Quinquempoix, Paris., According to Van Stolk, there is one state of this plate using Dutch verses. There are, however, other versions of this print with German and French text., and Three columns of verse in Dutch below title: Waar eertÿds 't Grieks Atheen 'vermaard ...
Publisher:
Chez G. Duchange, graveur du Roÿ, rue St. Jacques
Subject (Name):
Law, John, 1671-1729
Subject (Topic):
Economics, Swindlers and swindling, South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, City & town life, Crowds, Fighting, and People with disabilities
"By the efforts of Pitt, who directs Addington, and of a jester wearing cap and bells, an earthenware jug representing George III is lowered into the sea and fatally damaged by striking a rock inscribed 'Malte'. 'Addington' is a man of straw (his body formed of a bundle of straw), a puppet attached to a pole placarded with his name; Pitt (left) pulls threads attached to the dangling arms and legs, but looks round horrified at the disaster resulting from his machinations. The jester crouches on a rock (right); under his foot is a document: 'Traité d'Amiens' [see British Musueum Satires No. 9852, &c.]; he holds in both hands the rope, lowering the royal pitcher, but the other end of the rope is round Addington's hand and thus is manipulated by Pitt. Malta is a small castellated island with a church and a sharp rock which has gashed the pitcher just where it is decorated with a dog-like lion from whose head a crown falls. The mouth of the pitcher is a profile portrait of George III crowned, and looking down with angry dismay at the fatal rock."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Rue du Coq, Saint Honoré
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, and Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Marcenay de Ghuy, Antoine de, 1724-1811, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1755]
Call Number:
Print00944
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Tobit regaining his sight
Description:
Title from item., Translated title supplied by curator., Place of publication from item., In margin upper center: No. 37., In margin below title: Dedié a Monsieur Le Marquis De Voyer d'argenson ; Gravé d'après l'original de son Cabinet, haut de 17. pouces Sur 14 de large. Par son très humble et très obeissant Serviteur De Marcenay., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
ches l'auteur rue des vieux Augustins près l'Ègout
Subject (Topic):
Medicine in the Bible, Blindness in the Bible, Blindness, Eye, Surgery, Older people, Angels, Spectators, Spinning apparatus, and Dogs
A street scene in Paris, at corner of Pont Neuf: a blind man and a lame man beg on the sidewalk beside a bookseller's stall, the seller in glasses looing up at his shelves under an awning. Two street vendors sit in the street: a man with a peg leg holds a brush up along side his shoe shining equipment; above his head a sign with a cage hanging from it reads "La fond. Cond proprement les chiens et coupe les chats et tient depot de mort au rats.". Beside him a woman shears a sheep. Above her head a sign on the right margin: Catrinne coup chien et chat et son mari va-en ville. On the left along the wall a woman carries a dog in a bag and a turkey in her arms. Two other men show signs of shame and fear
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date from British Museum online catalogue., and Mounted on secondary support.
Publisher:
Chez Noel Fréres, rue St. Jacques no. 16 et rue des Prêtres St. Germain-l'Auxerois, no. 22
Subject (Geographic):
France and Paris.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Beggars, Blind persons, Bookselling, Peg legs, Pleading (Begging), Ratcatching, Sheep shearing, Shoe shining, and Street vendors
A view of the back window of a carriage on a country, tree-lined lane, shows a woman unswaddling her screaming child with a look of concern. An obese man to her right plugs his ears with his fingers, red-faced and angry. A thinner man to her left holds his nose. Another man in a bonnet leans out the window of the carriage with a surprised look on his face. In the front is a glimpse of the whip and the arm of the coach driver as he drives the coach quickly down the lane, hurling clouds of dust behind them. A dog looks down from the roof of the coach
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title etched above image, Printmaker's name etched at top of carriage., Series title and number from caption above image., Dimensions from impression Museum of Fine Arts, Boston., "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., and Sheet trimmed to 20 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Libraire, rue du Coq, No. 25
Subject (Topic):
Infants, Carriages & coaches, Crying, Dogs, Odors, and Sounds
A very fat man, stuck in a turnstile in a passage between two buildings, is helped by a young boy (right) with a suitcase (a boot-black?) and a man in fur cap, perhaps a carrier whose handcart leans against the wall (left). The passage is identified on the left as "Passage de la Boule Rouge". A poster on the building on the right warns, "Avis aux etrangers sur les dangers de Paris"; below this advice is the printmaker's name and the imprint statement
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title from impression in the Paris Musées Collections., Imprint statement and printmaker name from image of a broadside., Series title and number from caption above image., Sheet trimmed to image with loss of all text., "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., and Trimmed to image: sheet 19.3 x 23.6 cm.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Libraire, rue du Coq, St. Honoré
Subject (Geographic):
France and Paris.
Subject (Topic):
Occupations, Turnstiles, Obesity, and City & town life