Doctor Gruel
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (15.8 x 10.8 cm) sheet: 8 13/16 x 5 7/16 in. (22.4 x 13.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2011
Accession Number
2011.88(18)
Tags
Art Historical Context
"Doctor Gruel" is lively etching from October 3, 1771, attributed to a fascinating collaboration among British printmakers Matthew Darly and Mary Darly, alongside Sir Nash Grose and William Petty, 2 Earl of Shelburne. a compact 6¼ x 4¼ inches on the plate this intimate print captures profiles of men in a style typical of 18th-century caricature, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department as part of The Elisha Whittelsey Collection. Etching, a technique involving acid biting into a metal plate to create fine lines, allowed artists like the Darlys—renowned for...