The Fallacy of Hope
Medium
Lithograph on chine collé
Dimensions
Chine: 12 7/8 × 8 13/16 in. (32.7 × 22.4 cm) Sheet: 21 13/16 × 14 15/16 in. (55.4 × 38 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.600.257
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Thomas Landseer|Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel D'Orsay|Joseph Hogarth|Joseph Mallord William Turner|Hullmandel & Walton · 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...