Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A table D'hote, or French ordinary in Paris.
Call Number
D North 52/GC112/Box 18/Normal/Prints/Titles So-Ta GA 2014.00515
Identifier
ark:/88435/0c483s49b
Date Created
1756-1827
Extent
1 item ; sheet 27 x 40.4 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 188
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: Interior scene. Salle a manger, where the ordinary is held, is a handsome apartment, decorated in showy taste, with enrichments in plaster, canopies, curtains, mirrors, &c. The repast is in active course, and its humours are improved on with an observant eye. The company is diversified are bourgeois and their wives, petits-maitres, marquises, fat friars, and ladies of various degrees, all complaisance and graciousness.
Numbered in plate, upper right: "20".
Signed in plate, lower left: "Rowlandson del.".

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4972e26b-e59d-4fd4-a8c2-1c7ce1359487/manifest