Passing Characteristics in Twenty-Six Plates (cover)
Medium
Lithograph on brown paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 7/16 × 6 1/2 in. (21.5 × 16.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by Exchange, 1970
Accession Number
1970.541.155
Tags
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, where encounter *Passing Characteristics in Twenty-Six Plates (cover)*, a delightful 1840 lithograph on paper by Henry Heath, in collaboration with Lefevre & Kohler and I.. Brookes. Measuring a compact 8 7/16 × 6 1/2 inches, this cover image heralds a series of 26 plates capturing the whimsical "passing characteristics" of the day—likely satirical vignettes of fleeting fashions, social types, or eccentric behaviors. Lithography, a revolutionary 19th-century technique allowing artists to draw directly on stone for inex...
About the Artist
Henry Heath|Lefevre & Kohler|I. B. Brookes (British) · –
British