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Un petit soupèr a la parisiènne, or, A family of sans-culotts refreshing after the fatigues of the day
Title
Un petit soupèr a la parisiènne, or, A family of sans-culotts refreshing after the fatigues of the day [graphic].
Publication
[London] : Pubd. Sepr. 20th, 1792, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street, [20 September 1792]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 28 x 36 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
An epigram in three columns etched on a separate plate, printed below title: Epigram extempore on seeing the above print. "Here as you see, and as 'tis known ...
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on two edges of upper plate and bottom edge of lower plate.
Exhibited: "French Liberty. British Slavery. British Responses to the French Revolution." at The Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, CT, April - August 2009.
Provenance
From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Summary
A thin, ragged group of sansculottes sit on corpses around a table and feast on a decapitated head; behind them and above them are piles of body parts. An old woman squats before a fire basting the body of child that has been lashed to a spit. Three small children sit on the floor before a tub filled with entrails. On the wall above the fireplace is a stick figure labelled 'Petion' ; he holds an axe in one hand and a decapitated head in the other. To the sideis another drawing of a headless man labelled "Lewis le Grand."
Variant and related titles
Family of sans-culottes refreshing after the fatigues of the day
Family of sansculottes refreshing after the fatigues of the day
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2007
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, no. 8122
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist, p. 152
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1792.
Etchings - England - London - 1792.
Watermarks (Paper) - J. Whatman
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