Menu for an Etcher's Banquet

All Resolutions

Menu for the Etcher's Society.

Download smallest file size

Artist

Name:
Boilot, Alfred
Dates:
18??-18??
Country:
France

Illustration

Subject:
Humor
Techniques:
Etching, Halftone Process
Engraver:
Boilot, Alfred
Format:
Portrait (taller)
Source:
The Getty Research Institute, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:
Les menus & programmes illustrés
Author:
Maillard, Léon
Publisher:
Paris: G. Boudet, 1898
Open Library:
View record

Description:

A menu written on a scroll of paper is nailed to an imaginary board, while below, a diminutive, impish creature pours acid from a bottle into a trough where a plate is being held in place or retouched by a similar creature holding a burin. Fish and poultry bones seem to rise from the acid fumes that form.

The caption reads in the original French: Menu pour la Société des Aquafortistes.

Download json record

Share this: Share this page on Mastodon Share on Pinterest
▲ Top