print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1851,0901.1317
- Title
- Object: HET COMMITTE' VAN VIVRES.
- Description
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Two committee-men make requisitions from a peasant and a barrow-woman. One takes a fish from the creel on the fisherman's back, and puts it into a small cornucopia which he holds. The victim, who wears trousers and sabots filled with straw, holds a paper, 'Recepisse' (see BMSat 8849), and clenches his fist, furious at receiving a receipt instead of cash. The other, in back view, has taken a handful of turnips, the old woman looks at him with a hungry, puzzled stare. 1796
Etching printed in red
- Production date
- 1796
- Dimensions
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Height: 259 millimetres
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Width: 210 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)
The members of the committee have just made a purchase for the food-supply of the country: a handful of turnips and a dried fish suffice for 'des apprentiss-republicains'. Text, 'Proverbs,' xiv. 23.
For comment on "Hollandia Regenerata", the series to which this print belongs, see BM Satires 8846 (1851,0901.1311).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1851
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1851,0901.1317