Terrour or Fright (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)

Art Historical Context

Step into the whimsical world of early 19th-century British satire with *Terrour or FrightLe Brun Travested, Caricatures of theions)*, an etching published on January 21, 1800, by Ackermann in London.atively crafted by caricaturists Thomas Rowlandson and Georgeurgatroyd Woodward, print playfully distorts the serious facial studies of French artist Charles Le Brun from the 17th century Le Brun's influential series on human passions, used to teach artists about emotional expression, is here "travested"—exaggerated into comic grotesquery, capturing a man's face contorted in sheer terror. Printed...