The Pleasures of Human Life: Title Page
Medium
Letterpress
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 1/8 × 3 5/8 in. (15.5 × 9.2 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
59.533.1022(1)
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, where encounter *The Pleasures of Human: Title Page* (1807), a delightful letterpress print by antiquarian John Britton,aturist Thomas Rowlandson, publisher Longman, Hurst,, and Orme. Measuring just 6 1/8 × 3 5/8 inches, this compact title page served as the inviting frontispiece for a series of satirical illustrations capturing the joys—and follies—of everyday Regency-era life in Britain. Rowlandson, a master of witty caricature in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, infused his works with lively humor, often pok...
About the Artist
John Britton|Thomas Rowlandson|Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme (British|British, London) · 1771 |1724 –1857 |1968
British, Kington St. Michael, 1771–1857 London (?)|