print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1878,0713.1304
- Title
- Object: A French petit maitre and his valet
- Description
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Street scene, showing houses irregularly placed, foliage and rough stones on the ground, a stone tablet high on the side of a stone building is inscribed "Rue d'Enfer" (then a well-known street in Paris). The 'petit-maître' (l.) is walking from r. to left. but looks over his left. shoulder towards his valet who advances from the right. holding out a paper inscribed "Au petit Marquis", The marquis wears an enormous black bag with a solitaire ribbon loosely round his neck; a very large nosegay on his left. shoulder, a sword whose hilt is decorated with ribbons; his coat is covered with heart-shaped spots. The valet though wearing a ruffled shirt and laced waistcoat has his hair in curl-papers with a comb thrust into it. 1 November 1771
Etching with some engraving
- Production date
- 1771
- Dimensions
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Height: 360 millimetres
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Width: 265 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)
The grass-grown street probably satirizes the solitude of Paris streets compared with those of London. Reproduced, Paston, Pl. ccii.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1878
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1878,0713.1304
