print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1999,0926.3
- Title
- Object: Mme Gargantua à son grand couvert
- Description
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Madame Gargantua at her large table setting; satire of a gross aristocratic woman eating under an arbour with the lower orders ferrying food to her table. 1809
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1809
- Dimensions
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Height: 229 millimetres
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Width: 315 millimetres (cut)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This print was entered in the dépot légal by Noel on 25 November 1809.
For the companion print, showing Gargantua himself, see "The Topsy turvy World" exhib. cat., London, Goethe Institute, 1985, no.34.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1999
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1999,0926.3