Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Le docteur Isenbarre // [Dr. Isenbarre].
Call Number
E East 49/GC077/Box 50/Normal/Unidentified Artists/Titles J-L GA 2012.01111
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcpc289x47h
Publisher
Epinal, France : [s.n.], n.d. [1800s]
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1800
Extent
1 item ; sheet 41.4 x 31.6 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of William H. Helfand. Given 2008.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Unidentified Artist [caricaturist]
Medium: Wood engravings, Stencils (images)
Depiction: A doctor using various methods of killing people.
Provenance: Formerly part of the Pierre Julien collection.
Publisher information: Jean Charles Pellerin (1756-1836), French publisher and the first to publish the series of tales in the form of cartoons. Since his printing shop was in Epinal (in the French Vosges region) he called them 'Images d'Epinal'. Later, they were renamed Image d'Pellerin.
Item description: Cartoon sheet (catch-penny print) from Imagerie d'Pellerin.
Inscribed in plate, above: "Histoires & Scenes Humoristiques Contes Moraux - Merveilleux. Imagerie Pellerin Fondee en 1796 Serie aux Armes D"Epinal".
Numbered in plate, upper right: "485".
Unsigned.

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Broadsides—France—Epinal—19th century—Specimens
Medicine—France—Caricatures and cartoons
Physician and patient—France—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Quacks and quackery—France—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Death (Personification)—France—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e2a69190-c20f-40ac-a4ff-6ce4b44f094d/manifest