Intemperance.–The Animal: "Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is"–Shakespeare
![Intemperance.–The Animal: "Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is"–Shakespeare by William Shakespeare|Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]|T. W. Huffam|R. C. Lambe](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/dp/thumb/intemperancethe-animal-though-you-can-guess-what-668720.webp)
Medium
Mezzotint and etching
Dimensions
Plate: 13 1/8 × 10 1/8 in. (33.4 × 25.7 cm) Sheet: 18 1/2 × 13 3/4 in. (47 × 35 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924
Accession Number
24.63.1199
Tags
ShakespeareMen
About the Artist
William Shakespeare|Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]|T. W. Huffam|R. C. Lambe (British|British|British|British) · 1840 |1831 |1564 |1564 –1877 |1912 |1616 |1616
British, active 1840–77|British, London 1831–1912 London|British, Stratford-upon-Avon 1564–1616 Stratford-upon-Avon|British, Stratford-upon-Avon 1564–1616 Stratford-upon-Avon