print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1925,0701.32
- Title
- Object: Le ci devant grand couvert de Gargantua moderne en famille
- Description
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Satire on Louis XVI: Gargantua seated at table with his family demolishes a huge feast brought to him by a crowd of Frenchmen. Late 1791
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1792
- Dimensions
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Height: 430 millimetres
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Width: 568 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Not in de Vinck. See 'French Caricature and the French Revolution' Grunwald Center UCLA 1989, cat.68
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: French Revolution 1791
- Acquisition date
- 1925
- Acquisition notes
- Part of lot 131 in the 1925 sale; unsold and subsequently presented to the BM
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1925,0701.32
