The Knife Grinder

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A monkey equipped as a knife grinder sharpens a blade as his female partner pees on his whetstone

The knife grinder.

(Plate 7.)

Artist

Name:: Huet, Christophe
Dates:: 1694 or 1700-1759
Country:: France

Illustration

Subjects:: Animals, Humor
Technique:: Etching
Engraver:: Guélard, Jean-Baptiste
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: The Getty Research Institute, The Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Singeries, ou différentes actions de la vie humaine representées par des singes
Author:: Huet, Christophe
Publisher:: Paris: Daumont, n.d. [ca. 1740]
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Description:

A dressed monkey equipped as an itinerant knife grinder sharpens a blade as his female partner, seated on a high stool attached to his apparatus, pees on his whetstone wheel.

The caption reads in the original French: Le rémouleur.

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