- Creator:
- Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1746]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- View of Madame du Deffand's room and two cats, with one cat standing on an armchair at center and the other on the floor. The two animals face one another in apparent aggression, both having one paw raised and tail extended and fluffed. A fireplace is seen at right, behind which are a small bureau and wall-mounted bookshelf. In the center background is a window; part of a bed or sofa is visible behind a curtain in the left background
- Alternative Title:
- Madame du Deffand's cats and S'ils ont griffes et dents, ils en font bon usage ...
- Description:
- Title from Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Ch. Nic. Cochin fils; alternative title devised by curator., Designed and engraved in 1746 by Charles Nicolas Cochin; see Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Ch. Nic. Cochin fils., Verses by the president Hénault etched below image: S'ils ont griffes et dents, ils en font bon usage, On leur imputte à tort et ruse et trahison; Ils sont gays, caressans: la grace est leur partage, Qui les craints, s'en repent: qui s'y fie à raison., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 64 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780 and Hénault, Charles-Jean-François, 1685-1770.
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Les chats angola de Madame la Marquise du Deffand] [graphic]
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- Published / Created:
- [1 February 1771]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 13. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Cuisine de la poste
- Description:
- Titles in English and French etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Imprint continues: ... where may be had Mr. Bunburys other works, &c. &c., A reduced and reversed version of no. 4764 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4. This version is briefly described on page 42 of the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: French kitchen -- French poodle -- Paper sheet pictures -- Snuff box., On leaf 13., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 24.7 x 35 cm, on sheet 7.5 x 44.4 cm., and Censored impression; the three images of Jesus Christ in the background of the design have been cut out and removed from sheet.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Feb. 1st, 1771, by MDarly, 39 Strand ...
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The kitchen of a French post house La cuisine de la poste / [graphic] =
- Published / Created:
- [1 February 1771]
- Call Number:
- Bunbury 771.02.01.02.1+ Impression 1
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 13. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- Cuisine de la poste
- Description:
- Titles in English and French etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Imprint continues: ... where may be had Mr. Bunburys other works, &c. &c., A reduced and reversed version of no. 4764 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4. This version is briefly described on page 42 of the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: French kitchen -- French poodle -- Paper sheet pictures -- Snuff box., and Watermark: W[?].
- Publisher:
- Publish'd Feb. 1st, 1771, by MDarly, 39 Strand ...
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Topic):
- Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The kitchen of a French post house La cuisine de la poste / [graphic] =