Title Page, from Monkey-ana, or Men in Miniature
Medium
Etching on chine collé
Dimensions
plate: 8 1/8 x 6 1/2 in. (20.6 x 16.5 cm) sheet: 13 7/16 x 9 3/8 in. (34.1 x 23.8 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
59.600.38(1.1)
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Thomas Landseer|Moon, Boys & Graves|Pieri Bernard · 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...