ID: 700001517 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001517	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

L'onguent national (etching (print); unknown (etcher); Published: ca. 1790; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 2692-077; 692077; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.17,f.4))

Note: "... Cornu Pharmacien natif de Renne en Bretagne ayant fait la decouverte du Calembourg ou de l'Onguent National pour detruire les Corps et les / empecher de revenir offre ici la recette. / Prenes ..."--in lower margin; National Guardsmen prepare an ointment in the shop of an apothecary, using human fat from a canon or abbot and brains from nobles; An assistant stirs the ointment in a kettle over the fire that is being fueled by wood bearing the inscriptions: "Privilege / Arret / Bulle / Titre de Noblesse." A five-line inscription in the lower margin describes the recipe of the ointment; "d'Epresmenil / Maury"--pencilled in the lower margin; "Talleyrand / Chapelier / Barnave / Mirabeau."--inscribed in pencil on mat; Forms part of: Prints of the French Revolution, 1774-ca. 1840 (Special Collections, accn. no. P980009*); Watermark: L. LOMENEAU / LAINE [?]. Publication: [ca. 1790].

Titles:

L'onguent national (preferred,C,U,RP,undetermined-P,,)

National ointment: Satirical print of recipe mixing body parts of clergy and nobles (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Au chef passé present et futur (C,U,undetermined,,)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

etching (print) [300041365] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

print (visual work) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: Published: ca. 1790

Creator Display:

unknown (etcher) [preferred,VP]

etcher unknown (unknown cultural designation) [500125274]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2692-077; 692077; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.17,f.4)

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Display Materials: 1 print: etching, hand colored

	hand coloring [300133555]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <additive and joining processes and techniques>, coloring (process))

	etching (printing process) [300053241]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

Dimensions: plate mark 23.5 x 26.5 cm, on sheet 29 x 37 cm

General Subject:

satire (preferred)

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	National Guard (French militia, 1789-1871) [500354360]
	.....(Corporate Bodies) (ULAN)

	caricatures [300015634]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by form>, <visual works by form of image>) (AAT)

	nobility [300025942]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), groups of people, social groups, social classes, <social classes by specific type>, upper class, aristocracy (social class)) (AAT)

	clergy [300025747]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in religion and related occupations>, people in religion) (AAT)

	ointment [300391379]
	.....(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>) (AAT)

Provenance: lfell; Purchase.

Watermarks: L. LOMENEAU / LAINE [?]

Inscriptions: L'onguent national au chef passé present et futur.; wood bearing the inscriptions: "Privilege / Arret / Bulle / Titre de Noblesse." A five-line inscription in the lower margin describes the recipe of the ointment.; "Talleyrand / Chapelier / Barnave / Mirabeau."--inscribed in pencil on mat.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
L'onguent national	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 692077
National ointment: Satirical print of recipe mixing body parts of clergy and nobles	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
	........ Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
Au chef passé present et futur	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

....................... Bruel, L'estampe, 1770-1871 : Collection de Vinck (1909-1979) 3061

....................... La caricature révolutionnaire / André Blum no. 210

Note:
English	..... [GRISC]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)