Lobster Sauce

Nathaniel Currier

1846–56 · Hand-colored lithograph · Drawings and Prints

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.

Artist

Nathaniel Currier

Date

1846–56

Medium

Hand-colored lithograph

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962