Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Musee grotesque, no. 62. La ribotte. // [Grotesque museum, no. 62. The enema.].
Call Number
E East 47/GC077/Box 34/Normal/19th c./Artists Legs-Ly GA 2012.00763
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcjd4738849
Publisher
Paris : [s.n.], n.d. [1823]
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1823
Extent
1 item ; sheet 22.5 x 29.8 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of William H. Helfand. Given 2008.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Engravings, Hand coloring
Depiction: A husband and wife stand face-to-face in night clothes, each holding a funnel for an enema. The husband also holds a pitcher. A maid observes through a window. On the wall is a sign beginning "Le divin clysour. . .".
Provenance: Formerly part of the Pierre Julien collection.
Inscribed in plate, above: "Musee Grotesque, No. 62".
Signed in plate, lower margin: "A Paris, chez Hautecoeur Martinet Libraire, rue du Coq, no. 13 et 15. (Nouvelle invention brevetee, se trouve a l'ancienne pharmacie de petit quatremere, rue de la Verrerie, no. 4 et rue St. Jacques, no. 265.)".
Signed in plate, lower right: "Maleuvre s.".

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Spouses—France—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Enema—France—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Marriage—France—Caricatures and cartoons
Medicine—France—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4116e198-7cd9-4641-8fd6-a7e3dc121582/manifest