Colour printed engraved plate depicting a carrot and a spring onion standing arguing under a street lamp. Two street signs can be seen engraved into the wall with the inscriptions 'Rue Vide-Gousset' and 'Rue de la Republique'. The artist uses anthropomorphism to depict the vegetables in a humorous style. The book plate bears the imprints 'Varin del. et sc.' and 'de Gonet edit'. From the book 'L'empire des légumes' by Eugène Nus'. Inscription: '17' handwritten in pencil in the TL corner