La vice à son dernier étage [graphic] : (tableau parlant).

Creator:

Cari, Godissart de, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[not before 1820]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 22.4 x 26 cm, on sheet 26.5 x 36 cm

Related Links:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/4083209

Notes:

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."
"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.

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 a 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.

Variant Titles:

Musée grotesque ; no. 39
Musée grotesque. No. 39.

Topics:

Card games.
Chamber pots.
Gamblers.
Poverty.
Starvation.
Vice.

Topics:

Martinet, Aaron, 1762-1841, publisher. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr98004866

Language:

French

Genre:

Etchings--France--Paris--1820.
Satires (Visual works)--France--1820.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

820.00.00.90

Orbis Record:

13296725

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr35519

OID:

16227174

PID:

digcoll:4083209