The Triumph of Hypocrisy
January 11, 1787
Medium
Hand-colored stippled etching and aquatint
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 1/2 × 16 1/16 in. (31.7 × 40.8 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
59.533.215
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the witty world of 18th-century British satire with *The Triumph of Hyp*, a hand-colored stippled etching andatint created in 1787 by Elizabeth Jackson, Thomas Rowlandson and Samuel Collings. collaborative print, measuring 12½ × 16⅛ inches, captures a lively interior scene featuring men, women, and—hallmarks of Rowlandson's caricatured style, known for skewering societal follies during the Georgian era. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, it exemplifies the era's booming print culture, where affordable colored etchings brought sharp social comme...
About the Artist
Elizabeth Jackson|Thomas Rowlandson|Samuel Collings (British|British) · 1785 |1757 –1787 |1827
British, active 1785–87|British, London 1757–1827 London