A Chiel Among Them (recto); Amusements for the Sea-side (verso) (Punch, or the London Charivari, September 20, 1873, pp. 113-14)
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005
Accession Number
2012.60.6
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the witty world of Victorian satire with *A Chiel Among Them* (recto) and *Amus for the Sea-side*verso), a double wood engraving by George Du Maurier, in the September 20, 1873, issue of *P, or the London Charivari (pp. 113-14). Du Maurier, a beloved Punch caricaturist, captured the era's social quirks with sharp humor. This compact sheet (5 x 7 in.) from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department exemplifies the magazine's role as a mirror to British high society. Wood engraving, a precise technique carving fine lines into wood's end grain, allowed for detailed...
About the Artist
George Du Maurier · 1834–1896
George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (1834–1896) was a French-born British illustrator, cartoonist, and novelist whose sharp wit captured the absurdities of Victorian society. Born in Paris to Louis-Mathurin Busson du Maurier and Ellen Clarke—daughter of the notorious Regency courtesan Mary Anne Clarke—he grew up immersed in a fabricated family lore of aristocratic émigrés, though his grandfath...