Lobster Sauce

Publisher Lithographed and published by Nathaniel Currier American

1846–56

Not on view

Kitchen Interior: A dark black lobster at left on a wooden counter, uses its right claw to grab a paw of a gray cat, shown with wide eyes and bared teeth (its gums colored red). At the right side of the image, beside the cat, is a silvery-blue dead fish. A brown knife handle is in the lower left foreground; two pale blue-green glass containers stand against wooden wall behind the lobster.

Artwork Details

Title: Lobster Sauce
Publisher: Lithographed and published by Nathaniel Currier (American, Roxbury, Massachusetts 1813–1888 New York)
Date: 1846–56
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
Dimensions: Image: 14 15/16 × 21 1/16 in. (38 × 53.5 cm)
Sheet: 17 5/16 × 22 5/8 in. (44 × 57.5 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962
Object Number: 63.550.311
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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