Demosthenes on the Sea Shore – Giving a Lesson to a new Disciple
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 7/8 × 17 3/8 in. (30.2 × 44.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2014
Accession Number
2014.757.5(42)
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the Prints gallery of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, encounter *Demosthenes on the Shore – Giving a Lesson a New Disciple*, a lively lithograph from December , 1838. Created by the renowned caricaturist John Doyle (known as), with lithography by Alfred Ducôte and by Thomas McLean, 11⅞ × 17⅜-inch sheet captures a satirical moment. The roster of associated figures—John George Lambton,1st Earl of Durham; Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington; and Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux—hints at the political heavyweights lampooned here, reimagined in a classical tableau. The title draws ...
About the Artist
Alfred Ducôte|John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham|Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux|John Doyle|Thomas McLean (British|British|Irish) · 1788 |1830 |1797 –1875 |1840 |1868
British, 1788–1875|British, active 1830–40|Irish, Dublin 1797–1868 London