Allegorical caricature: Two couples approach a Cupid-like statue of a man with wings that has come alive; he wears a wig and carries a bow and a torch (extinguishing as he holds in downwards); he stands on a plinth hung with bags of money, an open chest with coins at its base and to the side sits a cat. On the tree behind (right) a sign reading "Coeur a vendreau, a louer au plus offrant &c dernier encherisseur" hangs from a heart pinned to the trunk on which a snake is curled hissing at the animated statue. The two couples are mismatched in age, in the center a handsome young officer stands with a withered old woman and on the left, a young woman with a fat, old man who holds a bag of coins. On the far left a turkey follows the procession
Description:
Title engraved below image., "Déposé à la Bibliolthêque."--Following imprint., Date from citation in: Journal général de la littérautre de France, 12è année, p. 58., and Mounted on secondary support. With mirror image ms. notes on verso, illegible.
Publisher:
Chez Noel Fréres rue des Prétres, St. Germain l'Auxerois, no. 22. Rue St. Jacques no. 16
A very thin, fobbish man with a walking stick tucked under his arm, walks down a staircase, smelling the tip of his finger (one of a sub-series of the Five Senses)"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Lettered in the image 'G de Cari' twice and 'Maleuvre sculp' once., Series title and number from caption above image., Description based on imperfect impression. Series title and numbering and dimensions from impression in the British Museum., This plate was entered in the 'Bibliographie de France' for 29 March 1817. See British Museum online catalogue, Registration number: 1990,0303.23., and "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.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Libre., rue du Coq, no. 15
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, French, Odors, Staffs (Sticks), and Stairways
"Reclining figure of St Mary Magdalene, reading a book."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1837,0408.144., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 192 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., Note in pencil in lower right corner: In the cabinet., and For further information, consult library staff.
"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., and 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.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet Libre., rue de Coq no.15
Subject (Topic):
Bathrooms, Curiosity, Lust, Water guns, and Women domestics
Surugue, Louis, approximately 1686 -1762, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1745]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Allegorical scene with Decrepitude as an old woman in extravagant costume putting another beauty spot on her face and looking at her reflection in a mirror on a washstand, while Madness personified by young woman with fool's bauble hanging from a sash is helping her getting dressed; above them, Cupid flying with arrow in his hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., See no. 2211 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and On page 72 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Chez L. Surugue graveur du roy ruë des Noyers, attenant le Magazin de Papier vis-a-vis St. Yves, A.P.D.R.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Ward, John, 1678-1758
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Aging, Clothing & dress, Cupids, Cosmetics, Dressing tables, Mirrors, and Women domestics
Titles etched below images., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Note in lower right corner of plate: Déposé a la Bibliotheque Nationale., One line of text under each title: Bonsoir, ma petite amie, je vais au bal, je vous souhaite autant de plaisir qu'a moi., Temporary local subject terms: Fashion: French fashion -- Female dress: ball gown -- Mothers -- Children -- Nurses -- Toys: blocks -- Harlequin doll -- Punishment: birch rod -- Fireplaces -- Architectural details: walls with decorative borders -- Wood floor -- Clocks -- Containers: vases., and Plate numbered '166' above image in contemporary hand.
Publisher:
Chez Bance, rue St. Denis, No. 175, près celle aux Ours
An emaciated women sits in a bed playing cards. Her clothes and sheets have tears and holes; the wallpaper is falling off the walls. Under her bed is a used chamber pot and to the left a table with shoes and an umbrella. An elegant coat, dress, and hat suggest better times. A letter on the foreground (right) is addressed: [illegible] CC. Madame de [illegible] rue de Richelieu no. 39.
Description:
Title etched below image., Date based on number 31 in this series, which was listed listed in the 'Bibliographie de France' for 3 June 1820., Series title and numbering etched above image., Printmaker's name etched on table (left) in image: G. de Cari., Between title and subtitle: "Ils sont passés ces jours de fêtes, Ils ne reviendront plus.", and "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.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Libraire, rue du Coq, no. 25
Subject (Topic):
Card games, Chamber pots, Gamblers, Poverty, Starvation, and Vice
"Portrait of probably one of Cornelis de Vos' children (Susanna?), seated in a baby chair and wearing a cap, playing with some sweets."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Engraved after a painting by Cornelis de Vos that was formerly attributed to Peter Paul Rubens. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1869,0410.968., Four lines of text below title: A Monseigneur le Marquis de Grimaldi, Chevalier de l'Ordre du Saint Esprit ..., "Tiré du cabinet de Monseigneur le prince de Monaco."--Lower left corner of plate., "Par son très-humble et très obéissant serviteur Salvador."--Lower right corner of plate., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 188 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
A French satire on the British administration, who are shown gathered around a table with bottles and glasses (two of which are toppled over) and a battle plan (’Plan de Berlin’) drawn on the tablecloth. The men are mostly yawning, asleep or looking bored. Even the dog in the foreground looks to be toppling over with fatique. A servant also yawning enters from the left with a bootjack carrying slippers(?). In 1806, French forces under Napoleon occupied Prussia, pursued the remnants of the shattered Prussian Army, and captured Berlin
Alternative Title:
Deliberations des politiques anglais sur la guere and Deliberations des politiques anglais sur la guerre
Description:
Title etched below image; the letter "n" in "plan" is etched backwards., For a variant state lacking alternative title and other text at bottom of plate, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1993,1107.60., "Déposé à la Bibliothèque Imp."--Beneath lower left corner of image., "Et presentement chez Basset Md. d'estampes et fabricant de papiers, peints, Rue St. Jacques au coin de colle des Mathurines, No. 64"--Below title., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet
Subject (Geographic):
Germany.
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Campaigns, Military officers, British, Tables, Bottles, and Drinking vessels