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Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville

French caricaturist (1803-1847)

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Field of work
Caricature
Juvenile Literature

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  • Images from the collections
  • Works from the collections
  • Frequent collaborators
  • Related topics

Images from the collections

Images by Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville

19 images from works
  • Three leeches in the role of physicians attend a grasshopper in the role of the patient and propose diet and bloodletting. Coloured lithograph after J.J. Grandville, ca. 1832.
  • An pharmacist's apprentice mixing up a prescription. Coloured wood engraving by Stypułkowski after J.J. Grandville.
  • Animals dressed as gentlemen and ladies survey the medical advertisements on a wall. Coloured wood engraving by J. Grandville, 1853.
  • Birds dressed as surgeons or medical students dissect a body. Pen drawing attributed to J. Grandville, 1829.
  • Animals portraying a pharmacist with customers. Lithographic reproduction after J.I. Grandville, c. 1840.
  • A couple buy some narcotics from an apothecary whose assistant, Death, works with a pestle and mortar in the back room. Coloured lithograph by J. Grandville.
  • An pharmacist's apprentice mixing up a prescription. Coloured wood engraving by Stypułkowski after J.J. Grandville.
  • An pharmacist's apprentice mixing up a prescription. Coloured wood engraving by Stypułkowski after J.J. Grandville.
  • A pharmacist (Louis Phillippe) making up a prescription for a seated lady, surrounded by figures in apothecary jars; representing members of the French government and various political matters. Lithograph by J.I. Grandville, 1832.
  • A pharmacist in his shop. Coloured wood engraving by J.I. Grandville after J. Bara, c. 1840.

Works from the collections

16 works

    • Pictures

    A pharmacist in his shop. Coloured wood engraving by J.I. Grandville after J. Bara, c. 1840.

    | Date: [1840?] | Reference: 15898i
    • Books
    • Online

    Fables de La Fontaine illustrées / par J.J. Grandville [i.e. J.I.I. Gérard].

    Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847 | Date: 1840
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A couple buy some narcotics from an apothecary whose assistant, Death, works with a pestle and mortar in the back room. Coloured lithograph by J. Grandville.

    Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847. | Reference: 16624i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Death pays a visit to a baron. Lithograph by Langlumé after Jean Grandville.

    Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847. | Reference: 36606i
    • Pictures

    A pharmacist (Louis Phillippe) making up a prescription for a seated lady, surrounded by figures in apothecary jars; representing members of the French government and various political matters. Lithograph by J.I. Grandville, 1832.

    Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847. | Date: [1832] | Reference: 16136i

Frequent collaborators

Pierre Langlumé

Related topics

Pharmacists
Death
Human behavior - Animal models
Pestles
Mortars
France
Scales (Weighing instruments)

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