Cut paper silhouette: Boys teasing a Dwarf, Augustin Edouart, 1829

Museum number

M187W

Object

Cut paper silhouette: Boys teasing a Dwarf, Augustin Edouart, 1829

Description

Boys teading a dwarf. Rectangular.A boy, facing right, runs towards a dwarf who wears a billy-cock hat and holds up a stick menancing two boys on the other side of him. one of whom holds a dead rat by the tail and is being egged on by an older boy behind him.This is a most lively silhouette and one of the best of Edouart's work. Unfortunately it has suffered from damage. It bears some indistinct writing art the bottom left.Unframed

Materials

Paper

On display?

No

Further description

Simple name

Silhouette

Subject

Caricature

Dimensions

regular: 38.0cm (h) x 22.0cm (w)