George III Leading an Army of Jugs
Medium
Etching with watercolor
Dimensions
11 13/16 × 19 5/8 in. (30 × 49.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Ellen Peckham Gift, 2015
Accession Number
2015.456
Tags
George IIICaricatureSatireKingsJugsTurkeys
About the Artist
Jacques Louis David · 1748–1825
Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), born in Paris on August 30 to a prosperous family, faced early tragedy when his father was killed in a duel around age nine. Raised by his mother's two architect uncles after his mother departed, David overcame family resistance to architecture and a facial tumor that hindered his speech and studies at the Collège des Quatre-Nations. He began training under the Roc...