• Title
  Geai, pare des plumes du Paon, ca. 1802 [hand coloured engraving]
• Call number
  SV/151
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1802
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  825961
• Physical Description
  1 print - hand coloured engraving - platemark 21.5 x 29 cm. on sheet 22.3 x 30.3 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  This cartoon parodies the production of popular travel writing in the late 18th-early 19th century as a cycle of plagiarism of existing accounts of voyages of exploration. The title refers to La Fontaine's fable of the jay passing itself off as a peacock, dressed in a peacock's moulted feathers. Authors named amongst a pile of volumes and circulating copy include Cook, d'Entrecasteaux, Bougainville and La Perouse.
• General note
  
  Title 'Geai, pare des plumes du Paon' engraved above image; subtitled within image: 'Esquisse de la Geographie Universelle / Se trouve chez tous les Marchands d'Estampes'. Characters in image identified by numerals referring to title and to caption at top right: 1 Geai; 2 Scribe; 3-4 Apprentis Plagiaires. Winged donkey is captioned on rump: 'Pegase des plagiaires et des compilateurs'.
  Digital order no:a6426001
• Date note
  
  Dated from the publication of Pinkerton's Geography in 1802, shown here being cut up with scissors by Geai.
• Subject
  Travel writing--Humour.
  Plagiarism
  Satire in art.
  
• Topic
  cartoons
  prints
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3238736

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