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English: Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, L'Écrevisse (Cancer) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service, 1824   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, L'Écrevisse (Cancer) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service, 1824
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English: Design for a painted porcelain plate, square format. Scene at a seafood restaurant whose sign is posted in the doorway: " à l'ecrevisse / et sa fille." A couple, right foreground, stand at the restaurant entrance. The figure of a man smokes a pipe, the woman stands with her left hand on her hip and gestures to a young, well-dressed couple seated outside the restaurant at a table beneath an arbor. The young woman is taken by surprise when she sees her aunt and exclaims, "What are you doing here auntie--what are you coming to do?"
Date 1824
date QS:P571,+1824-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium pen and brown, black ink, brush and brown, black wash, white gouache, red crayon, pink, tan watercolor, red crayon, graphite on cream laid paper mounted on cream laid paper, ruled border in pen and brown ink
Dimensions 19.4 x 14.8 cm (7 5/8 x 5 13/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
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Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
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1989-13-40
Credit line Museum purchase through gift of James Amster
Notes
  • Type: Drawing
  • Inscribed: Inscribed in pen and brown ink over graphite, on mount above drawing: L'écrevisse; below drawing: que fais tu ici?--ma tante qui viens tu faire? (What are you doing here auntie--what are you coming to do?); in graphite, upper right corner of mount: 6
  • Country: France
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