Title Page
Medium
Letterpress
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 1/2 in. × 5 in. (19.1 × 12.7 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
59.533.1620(1)
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's and Prints department, where we spotlight this charming *Title Page* from 1813. Created through collaboration between satirist Thomas Rowlandson, London publisher Rudolph Ackermann, James Green, this letterpress print measures a compact 7½ × 5 inches. Letterpress, a technique using inked raised type to transfer text onto paper, was ideal for producing clear, durable title pages that introduced books or print series during the Regency era. Rowlandson, for his witty caricatures capturing British social life with exaggerated humor and fluid lines, ofte...
About the Artist
Thomas Rowlandson|Rudolph Ackermann, London|James Green · 1756–1827
Thomas Rowlandson (1757–1827) was an English artist and caricaturist whose satirical watercolors and prints captured the social life of Georgian Britain with unparalleled wit and technical mastery. Alongside James Gillray, he is recognized as one of the greatest British graphic artists, and his distinctive flowing line and keen observations have made his work integral to understanding late 18th an...