"A grossly obese John Bull and his lean and ugly wife, both wearing hats, sit on upright chairs, gormandizing. The man holds a whole chicken to his mouth, taking a huge bite. The woman (left) faces him, biting a large melon which she holds with both hands to an enormous mouth. He is morosely savage, she is melancholy; both are gap-toothed. On the ground (right) by the man's chair are collected a ham or gigot, a large irregular (?) galantine, a raised pie: 'pâté de périgueux', a huge jar of 'vin de lafitte' round which four bottles are grouped: 'frontignac', 'Clos de Vouge[ot]', and '. . . seac'. Beside the woman are a basket and tray filled with grapes, peaches, and pears. Through a wide doorway (left) the street is seen with a seated fruit-seller who serves three grotesquely hideous Englishwomen. Two are lank and emaciated, one tries to stuff a big peach into an immense mouth, holding an armful of grapes and peaches; the other gnaws at a bunch of grapes held in both hands. The third, also with bulging cheeks, bites a peach. The fruit-seller's tray is empty; she holds out her last peach. All the women wear small absurd hats or caps, tight long-waisted bodices (coloured) with long white skirts (cf. No. 12359)."--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 Martinet, Libraire, Rue de Coq St. Honoré
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Eating & drinking, Ethnic stereotypes, Obesity, and Women
A thin man in a cap pulled down on his head feeds a morsel of food to an obese woman who combs a wig in her hand as they sit on a sofa before a table laid with lunch. They are in a well-appointed sitting room decorated with a mirror above a fireplace with a mantel on which sits a clock, a sheet of music entitled 'Romance', and under a glass vitrine, a statuette of man holding a bird on his finger. The fire screen is decorated with an image of two love birds. On the left edge is only a portion of painting, but it shows a bird perched on the finger of the sitter's hand. The man's discarded hat and walking stick rest of a sofa to the left
Description:
Title from text below image., Signed by the printmaker on a slip of paper tucked into the left edge of the mirror., Series title and number from caption above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "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 Mounted on blue laid paper to: 36 x 30 cm.
"Six men in varying stages of intoxication surround a low, cloth-covered dinner-table (not bare as was customary for dessert), on which are a big punch-bowl, bottle, and glasses. One lies on the floor clasping a bottle and shouting, his chair overturned. Two pairs converse affectionately; an elderly man, his elbows on the table, supports his head, registering anguish. A seventh stands at a sideboard with a chamber-pot taken from a cupboard in the sideboard."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Series title follows main title., Date and artist from British Museum catalogue., and "No. 2"--Upper right corner.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Librarie, Rue du Coq St. Honoré
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Intoxication, Eating & drinking, Urination, and Foreign public opinion, French
Interior view of an English tavern, with two men dining at a table in the left foreground (their dogs beside them looking up at the food) and another man reading a newspaper at a table to the right. A fourth man stands in the right background, his back to the viewer, looking out a window. A waiter carries a plate of food from the left
Description:
Title etched below image. and "Originally issued by Martinet in 1806, this example has an additional Basset imprint and is thus a later impression."--Dealer's description.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, et presentement chez Basset Md. d'Estampes et fabricant de papiers, peints, rue St. Jacques au coin de celle des Mathurins, No. 64
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Taverns (Inns), Eating & drinking, Dogs, Newspapers, and Waiters
Title etched below image., Date supplied by curator., Creator information from British Museum website., In top margin: Musée Grotesque No.16., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Libre. Rue du Coq, No.15 ; Depe. à la Don
Subject (Topic):
Gluttony, Cherry trees, Ladders, and Eating & drinking
Title and place of publication from item., Date supplied by curator., Above image: Musée Grotesque. No.31., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
"A lady, stout and plain, her knees awkwardly apart, sits behind a small round tea-table filling a cup from a large urn. Seven other ladies sit on her right and left, in a semicircle, on upright chairs, in silent boredom. A child sits by its ugly middle-aged mother on the extreme right. A black servant in livery hands a tray on which are cups, cream-jug, and small (?) rolls. The room is bare except for table, chairs, and a narrow curtained window."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Print attributed to Alphonse Roehn in the British Museum catalogue., Date from British Museum online catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on lower edge.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Libraire, Rue de Coq St. Honoré
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Children, Eating & drinking, Servants, Tea services, Tea tables (Tables), and Women
