A la vue de ce mécanisme que le docteur fit jouer avec satisfaction, leurs Grâces rougirent, Paris Musées 20230520102253, between 1840 and 1842

Author(s): grandville (nancy, 15–09–1803 - vanves, 17–03–1847), designer andrew-best-leloir, engraver hetzel, pierre-jules (chartres, 15–01–1814 - monte-carlo, 17–03–1886), publisher paulin, editor other titles: illustration for "heartache of an english cat" (dummy title), scenes from the private and public life of animals - études de mœurs contemporains, paris: hetzel et paulin, 1842 (title of the whole) production date: between 1840 and 1842 type(s) of object(s): manuscripts, printed matter, binding name(s): book illustration dimensions - artwork: height: 25. 7cm width: 16. 7cm dimensions - picture: height: 17. 7cm width: 10. 6cm dimensions - mounting: height: 40cm width: 30cm description: illustration (ht plate) for scenes from the private and public lives of animals, paris: paulin and hetzel, 1842 marks, inscriptions, hallmarks: letter - under the image: "at the sight of this mechanism which the doctor operated with satisfaction, their graces blushed" signature - bottom right: "andrew best leloir" signature - bottom left almost illegible: "j. J grandville" iconographic description: a doctor with the head of a heron stands, clyster in hand. He is dressed in a frock coat and vials protrude from his pocket. Excerpt from peines de coeur d'une chat anglaise, by h de balzac (in private and public life of animals, j. Hetzel librarian-publisher, 1867): "my mistress sent for a doctor, who was leaving edinburgh after having studied for a long time in paris. He promised my mistress to cure me the very next day, after having recognized my illness. He indeed returned, and left in his pocket an instrument of parisian manufacture. I had a sort of fright when i saw a white metal barrel ending in a tapered tube. At the sight of this mechanism, which the doctor played with satisfaction, their graces blushed, became angry and said very beautiful things about the dignity of the english people. Themes / subjects / places represented: social subject, morals, heron, doctor, medical instrument or equipment mode of acquisition: purchase date of acquisition: 21–02–1986 institution: maison de balzac part of: scenes from the private and public lives of animals, paris: j. Hetzel and paulin, 1842, vol. 1. Date: between 1840 and 1842.