Drunken Lovers
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 11/16 × 7 3/4 in. (27.2 × 19.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.533.557
Tags
Art Historical Context
"Drunken Lovers," an etching created on March 15, 1798, brings together the talents of British satirists Thomas Rowlandson, Henry Wig, George Murgatro Woodward, and Samuel Hooper Measuring 10 11/16 × 7 3/4 inches, this print from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings Prints department captures a raucous scene of inebriated couples entangled in revelry, complete with female nudes. Rowlandson, the lead artist renowned for his caricatures, often collaborated with these peers to lampoon societal follies. Produced during the late Georgian era, when caricature prints flourished in London as aff...
About the Artist
Thomas Rowlandson|Henry Wigstead|George Murgatroyd Woodward|Samuel Hooper · 1756–1827
Thomas Rowlandson (1757–1827) was an English artist and caricaturist whose satirical watercolors and prints captured the social life of Georgian Britain with unparalleled wit and technical mastery. Alongside James Gillray, he is recognized as one of the greatest British graphic artists, and his distinctive flowing line and keen observations have made his work integral to understanding late 18th an...