Cautionary Tales · Stop No. 33
Marie Antoinette
“Homemade Made Easy”
- Era
- 1793, give or take a neck
- Provenance
- Place de la Révolution, Paris
- Medium
- Two-color woodcut on cotton
- Edition
- First and final printing
A kitchen appliance advertisement from a manufacturer with a poor grasp of the queen's final circumstances. The blade pictured is not dishwasher safe. The batter recipe, historians note, does not actually call for cake.
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