"The Meal of the Monks"
Colored stencil lithograph from the 1930s, representing Monks in the kitchen doing "bombance" by the artist Harry Eliott.
Sheet format 32.5x45
Drawing format 25x36
Charles Edmond Hermet, better known as "Eliott" is a French draftsman, illustrator, painter and watercolourist. In love with England, he opted very early for an Anglo-Saxon pseudonym.
He is known for his many humorous stencils, of horsemen, hunters, monks and the like, in the Victorian style of the English illustrators he admired, such as Randolph Caldecott and Cecil Aldin.