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• Author/Creator:Buquet, Alexandre, 1801-1846, artist, engraver.
  
• Title:Mouchoir des connaissances utiles : résumé des meilleures recettes indispensables à tous les ménages / A. Buquet, desr. gravr.
  
• Publication:A Rouen : Manufacture de E. Renault, [ca. 1850-ca. 1870?]
  
• Physical Description:1 printed handkerchief : cotton ; 69 x 77 cm
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Textiles 17c
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
    

   
• Notes:Printed in black. With red border.
  The design is signed "A. Buquet" at top right, probably for Alexandre Buquet (1801-1846), founder of the Buquet atelier. Alfred Buquet (d. 1934) was a later practicioner.
  
• Biographical / Historical note:Between 1830 and 1905 the Buquet family of artists and engravers designed over 300 printed handkerchiefs on a range of topics, varyingly humorous, commemorative, or practical. Handkerchiefs offering military instructions were among the most popular and reprinted. A number of handkerchiefs also treated politics and current events. While often intended to be worn around the neck, they could also be displayed on a wall, or carried on one's person to reference. The "Mouchoir des connaissances utiles," first published around 1840, was one of the more enduring themes.
  
• Summary:Instructional handkerchief designed in the Buquet atelier of Rouen. The present example illustrates 32 useful household hints and "recettes," giving advice on a range of domestic situations. Eight topics are included, with four or more hints given for each, under the headings: Aliments (food), Boissons (drink), Vêtement (clothing), Ameublement (furnishing), Toilette (bath and beauty), Hygiène (health), Recettes (recipes) and Diverses (sundry). The hints include a quick way to leaven bread, a means of preserving artichokes throughout the year, a recipe for an almond hand-cream, one for cleaning copper, on the care of lace, a cure for tooth-ache, and a recipe to kill rats.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Subjects:Clothing and dress--France.
  Food--France.
  Formulas, recipes, etc.--France.
  Home economics--France.
  Traditional medicine--France--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
  
• Genre/Form:Cloth prints.
  Printed textile materials.
  Engravings--1850-1870.
  Textiles.
  Ephemera.
  Handkerchiefs.
  
• Also listed under:Renault, Ernest, printer.