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Le Danger De Manger De La Souris Est Qu'Ensuite Votre Chat Ne Coure Après

Print
1870 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Satirical print in which a cat leaps into the mouth of a man sitting down to dinner. The man is holding a knife and fork in both hands. 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

Categories
Object type
TitleLe Danger De Manger De La Souris Est Qu'Ensuite Votre Chat Ne Coure Après (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Lithograph on paper
Brief description
'Le Danger De Manger De La Souris Est Qu'Ensuite Votre Chat Ne Coure Après'. Satirical print by Amedee Charles Henri de Noé in which a cat leaps into the mouth of a man sitting down to dinner. Lithograph, France, 1870.
Physical description
Satirical print in which a cat leaps into the mouth of a man sitting down to dinner. The man is holding a knife and fork in both hands. 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.
Dimensions
  • Height: 22.9cm
  • Width: 16.1cm
Dimensions from: Lambert, Susan. The Franco-Prussian War and The Commune in Caricature 1870-71. catalogue of a collection of prints in the possession of the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1971.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Le Danger De Manger De La Souris Est Qu'Ensuite Votre Chat Ne Coure Après' (Lettered)
  • 'CHAM 119' (Signed and numbered)
Gallery label
"Cham" (pseudonym of Amadée Charles Henri, Count of Noë) (1819-79) Jokes about the unconventional sustenance circulated through Paris. Le Figaro related how a man was puzzled to find himself pursued through Paris by a pack of barking dogs, until he remembered that he had eaten rat for breakfast. Lithograph. E.575-1962
Object history
First published in Le Charivari on 1 December 1870. Republished in the state reproduced in L' Album du Siége (sic).
Historical context
This print jokes about the unconventional sustenance circulated through Paris. Le Figaro related how a man was puzzled to find himself pursued through Paris by a pack of barking dogs, until he remembered that he had eaten a rat for breakfast.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Lambert, Susan. The Franco-Prussian War and The Commune in Caricature 1870-71. catalogue of a collection of prints in the possession of the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1971.
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962. London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Accession number
E.575-1962

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Record createdFebruary 5, 2009
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