- Creator:
- Godissart de Cari, 1774-1848, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1820]
- Call Number:
- 820.00.00.90
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > La vice à son dernier étage (tableau parlant). [graphic]
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