Accession number
PML 147623, page 29
Creator
Cari, Godisart de, printmaker.
Published
[Paris] : [Chez Martinet], [12 November 1814]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Dimensions from impression in the British Museum catalogue.
Attributed to printmaker Godisart de Cari and publisher Martinet. See British Museum catalogue.
This plate was deposited by Martinet on 12 Novemberr 1814, before the companion print "L'Arrivée" (1868,0808.7249) which logically precedes it. Martinet's name is not actually lettered on the plate.
Library's copy trimmed to image, with the caption title retained, but with the loss of the signature; mounted into a scrapbook of assorted prints, souvenirs, and pieces of printed and manuscript memorabilia, compiled by former owner Flora Macleod circa 1827-1830. See PML 147623.
Dimensions from impression in the British Museum catalogue.
Attributed to printmaker Godisart de Cari and publisher Martinet. See British Museum catalogue.
This plate was deposited by Martinet on 12 Novemberr 1814, before the companion print "L'Arrivée" (1868,0808.7249) which logically precedes it. Martinet's name is not actually lettered on the plate.
Library's copy trimmed to image, with the caption title retained, but with the loss of the signature; mounted into a scrapbook of assorted prints, souvenirs, and pieces of printed and manuscript memorabilia, compiled by former owner Flora Macleod circa 1827-1830. See PML 147623.
Description
1 print : etching, hand colored ; image: mm; sheet 20.0 x 27 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
"The Englishman, grossly obese, walks from the door of the inn (left) supporting his paunch on a wheelbarrow which the cook of British Museum satire no. 12361 helps to drag, exhausted by the effort, and mopping his face with his cap. A plank leads from the quayside to a packet-boat, the stern of which appears below, empty except for one expectant sailor. Another sailor's hand appears by the plank, ready to assist the embarkation. The sign of the inn is not depicted, the window flap hangs down. The second cook stands in the courtyard, offering food to a gorged cat on the roof."--British Museum online catalogue.
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