Colour printed engraved plate depicting two vegetables standing together in a vegetable bed. One is extremely thin, while the other is rotund. The artist uses anthropomorphism to depict the vegetables in a humorous style. The book plate bears the imprints 'Varin del. et sc.' and 'G. de Gonet edit'. From the book 'L'empire des légumes' by Eugène Nus'. Inscription: '9' handwritten in pencil in the TL corner