Queue Viande Rats by Cham (1 results)
Published by [Paris], France: 1870. 1870
- Softcover
- Manuscript
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Wittenborn Art Books
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Condition: Good. Lithograph on paper. 23.4 x 16.8 cm. Good with sun-fading, foxing.During the cold winter months rat-hunting became a fashionable sport. After the Seine had run out of fish, the Paris Journal offered helpful hints on how to 'fish for sewer rats with a hook and line bated with tallow.' 39 distinctions in price wer…e made between brewery and sewer rats although the popularity of both breeds was confined to the rich, on account of the extravagant sauces required to make them palatable.
