artist Hildibrand, Henri Théophile engraver

Description

Engraving of people depicted as animals by Henri Théophile Hildibrand from a painting by J. J. Grandville, published in 1828 in the book titled Les métamorphoses du jour (Daily transformations). In the scene identified as plate XLV (45), a heavy-set man with a mastiff's face, carrying a purse and leaning on a cane, watches as a man in uniform with a cat's face (note whiskers) is taking the measurements of three recruits--all with the heads of sheep. The caption below the scene reads "Le recruteur, ou la traite des blancs." ("The recruiter, or the white slave trade.")

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Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center

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Digital Maryland