La Queue Pour La Viande De Rats
Print
1870 (printed)
1870 (printed)
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Satirical print depicting a group of men on their knees peering into a gutter and drain in search of rats. In the right background, standing on the edge of the pavement, is a French soldier. Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes. Each volume is half-bound in red leather, gold tooled and stamped with imperial emblems, title etc.
Object details
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| Title | La Queue Pour La Viande De Rats (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Lithograph on paper |
| Brief description | 'La Queue Pour La Viande De Rats'. Satirical illustration by Amedee Charles Henri de Noé depicting a group of men on their knees peering into a gutter and drain in search of rats. Lithograph, France, 1870. |
| Physical description | Satirical print depicting a group of men on their knees peering into a gutter and drain in search of rats. In the right background, standing on the edge of the pavement, is a French soldier. Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes. Each volume is half-bound in red leather, gold tooled and stamped with imperial emblems, title etc. |
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| Gallery label | "Cham" (pseudonym of Amadée Charles Henri, Count of Noë) (1819-79)
During the cold winter months rat-hunting became a fashionable sport. After the Seine had run out of fish, the Paris Journal offered helpful hints on how to fish for sewer rats with a hook and line bated with tallow. Distinctions in price were made between brewery and sewer rats although the popularity of both breeds was confined to the rich, on account of the extravagant sauces required to make them palatable.
Lithograph. E.583-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971) |
| Object history | First published in Le Charivari on 8 December 1870. Republished in the state reproduced in L' Album du Siége (sic). |
| Historical context | During the cold winter months rat-hunting became a fashionable sport. After the Seine had run out of fish, the Paris Journal offered helpful hints on how to 'fish for sewer rats with a hook and line bated with tallow.’ 39 distinctions in price were made between brewery and sewer rats although the popularity of both breeds was confined to the rich, on account of the extravagant sauces required to make them palatable. |
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| Accession number | E.583-1962 |
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| Record created | February 5, 2009 |
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