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One Kills the Fat Calf
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One Kills the Fat Calf

PortfolioPlate 8 from the series "The Prodigal Son"
Date1634
MediumEtching
DimensionsSheet (trimmed within platemark): 53 × 80 mm. (2 1/16 × 3 1/8 in.)
Credit LineGarrett Collection
Object number1946.112.743
NOT ON VIEW
Last Updated1/11/24
Image Not Available for Mariano Ceballos, alias el Indio, mata el toro desde du caballo (Mariano Ceballos, alias the Indian, kills the bull from his horse)
Mariano Ceballos, alias el Indio, mata el toro desde du caballo (Mariano Ceballos, alias the Indian, kills the bull from his horse)
1816
Image Not Available for Horrible Crime! A Woman Kills Her Son in Tacubaya, Saturday March 18, 1905
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1905
Image Not Available for The Oyster. (You'll wake me up at dinner time.) Big, fat, thick, plump, greedy, wakes up only for the purpose of taking in food and sleeps only for the purpose of digesting it. The oyster does not eat for living, but lives for eating. Its locomotive and industrial apparatus are non existent. It vegetates on the spot and its existence is manifested only by the exactitude, the number and the quality of the meals. The entire energy of the oyster is located in the stomach. One might call it an animal of pleasure, its only mission in life being to consume without working, while others work without consuming. It seems to be perfectly at ease with this providential mission. (Lacépède – Natural History.)
The Oyster. (You'll wake me up at dinner time.) Big, fat, thick, plump, greedy, wakes up only for the purpose of taking in food and sleeps only for the purpose of digesting it. The oyster does not eat for living, but lives for eating. Its locomotive and industrial apparatus are non existent. It vegetates on the spot and its existence is manifested only by the exactitude, the number and the quality of the meals. The entire energy of the oyster is located in the stomach. One might call it an animal of pleasure, its only mission in life being to consume without working, while others work without consuming. It seems to be perfectly at ease with this providential mission.
(Lacépède – Natural History.)
1837
Image Not Available for Apollo and Diana kill Niobe's Children with Their Arrows; She Is Turned into Stone
Apollo and Diana kill Niobe's Children with Their Arrows; She Is Turned into Stone
Bernard Picart
1731, published 1733
Image Not Available for The Sanhedrin Deciding to Kill Christ
The Sanhedrin Deciding to Kill Christ
1593
Image Not Available for The Kill: Hunters and Hounds
The Kill: Hunters and Hounds
n.d.
Image Not Available for Rondout Kill, Afternoon
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Daniel Huntington
1837
Image Not Available for How much I regret. / My arms once so strong, / My legs never fat / And nothing went wrong (an ancient song)
How much I regret. / My arms once so strong, / My legs never fat / And nothing went wrong (an ancient song)
1840
Image Not Available for Big, Fat and...Constitutional
Big, Fat and...Constitutional
1833
Image Not Available for A Fat Drunkard
A Fat Drunkard
1840
Image Not Available for Baby Thelma Fat Girl
Baby Thelma Fat Girl
1940
Image Not Available for Charles III the Fat
Charles III the Fat
1738