Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Plate 2 of a series of 23 prints featuring monkeys acting as humans in various figural scenes. In an outdoor setting, a monkey in a hunting costume kneels, blowing into a circular French horn. A hunting dog at right peers at him as he blows into the instrument.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Christophe Huet, French, 1695 – 1759
- Print Maker
- Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Guelard, French, 1719–ca. 1755
- Publisher
- François-Philippe Charpentier, France, 1734–1817
- Date
- 1743
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium
- Etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 26.4 × 31.9 cm (10 3/8 × 12 9/16 in.)
- Type
- albums (bound) & books
- Object Name
- Bound print
- Type
- Bound print
