Monkey Despot, from Monkey-Ana or Men, in Miniature
Thomas Landseer|Moon, Boys & Graves
July 1828
Medium
Illustrations: etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 1/16 x 6 11/16 in. (20.4 x 17 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.3437(11)
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
MasksMenMonkeys
About the Artist
Thomas Landseer|Moon, Boys & Graves · 1795–1880
**Thomas Landseer** (1795–1880) was a British engraver and etcher renowned for his masterful reproductions of his younger brother Edwin Landseer’s animal paintings, which helped popularize the latter’s work across Victorian Britain. Born in London as the eldest of fourteen children to engraver John Landseer and actress Jane Potts, Thomas was one of only seven siblings to reach adulthood; his broth...