Les Anglais en Bourgogne. First edition of the etching.
Paris: Aaron Martinet, 1814. Handcolored etching. 25 x 33cm. Taped to mat...British Museum number
1998,1108.14: Satire on the English: five Englishmen totally inebriated round a barrel of Burgundy wine. September 1814...Inscription content: Lettered with title and publication address 'A Paris chez Martinet' and 'Dé à la Don de la Librairie'....Curator's comments:.....
This print was listed in the 'Bibliographie de France' for 17 September 1814 by Janet (who is probably François Janet). It is probably an English printing of the French satire as it is on English paper and comes from a broken-up bound volume of satires published by Thomas Palser under the title-page "A Collection of Caricatures, designed and engraved by Rowlandson, Bunbury etc. Published by Thos Palser, Surrey side of Westminster Bridge, 1812". See also under 1998,1108.12. Another uncoloured impression is 1958,1006.2911.....
Grosvenor Prints:
A group of drunken Englishmen, surround a barrel of
Burgundy. One drinks from the tap as another vomits
red wine and a third urinates against the wall. A French
sign on the wall reads 'Here we drink at the rate of 12
francs per hour': the clock on the wall and a note in a
fourth man's hand suggest they have only been
drinking for twenty minutes.
A satire on English tourists returning to the continent
after the end of the War of the Sixth Coalition, when
Napoleon was exiled to Elba......
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From the collection of Frederick Ruffner (1926-2014), the founder of Gale Research, Detroit. Item #51-7189
Price: $650.00