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Les Cosaques en bonne fortune // [The Cossacks in good fortune].
1815
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Metadata
- Call Number
- E East 47/GC077/Box 23/Normal/19th c./Artists Fl-Gat GA 2012.00531
- Publisher
- Paris : [s.n.], n.d. [ca. 1815]
- People
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- Author
- Garneray, Louis, 1783-1857
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Subject
- Caricature
- Cossacks—Russia—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Courtship—France—Paris—Caricatures and cartoons
- Athena (Greek deity)—Caricatures and cartoons
- Goddesses, Greek—Caricatures and cartoons
- Women peasants—France—Paris—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- France—History, Military—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Russia—History, Military—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Europe—History, Mmilitary—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815—Caricatures and cartoons
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Les Cosaques en bonne fortune // [The Cossacks in good fortune].
- Call Number
- E East 47/GC077/Box 23/Normal/19th c./Artists Fl-Gat GA 2012.00531
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dc0k225q43b
- Publisher
- Paris : [s.n.], n.d. [ca. 1815]
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1815
- Extent
- 1 item ; sheet 25.7 x 36 cm.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
- Depiction: Caricature; military scene. Two Cossacks courting two Parisian peasant women. One of the women is short, the other obese. In background, Athena runs in dismay and French soldier raises his hand.
- Signed in plate, lower margin: "A Paris chez Martinet, Libraire, rue de Coq no. 15. Depose al la Direction de la Libraire".
- Signed in plate, lower left.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Caricature
- Cossacks—Russia—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Courtship—France—Paris—Caricatures and cartoons
- Athena (Greek deity)—Caricatures and cartoons
- Goddesses, Greek—Caricatures and cartoons
- Women peasants—France—Paris—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- France—History, Military—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Russia—History, Military—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Europe—History, Mmilitary—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815—Caricatures and cartoons
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 2
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Omega Project
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0e79faf8-94fa-457b-ab32-251031a7a682/manifest