Title Page: "The Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams"
Medium
Letterpress
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 7 3/16 × 4 5/16 in. (18.2 × 11 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
59.533.561a
Art Historical Context
This title page belongs to a 1792 edition of Henry Fielding’s comic novel *The Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams*, first published fifty years earlier. Fielding’s witty tale parodies the sentimental fiction of his day while following the virtuous footman Joseph and his eccentric companion Parson Adams on their misadventures across the English countryside. The present printing, produced in letterpress on a modest sheet measuring roughly seven by four inches, reflects the growing popularity of affordable illustrated books in late-eighteenth-century Britain. The page...
About the Artist
Henry Fielding|Thomas Rowlandson|James Sibbald (British|British) · 1707 |1757 –1754 |1827
British, 1707–1754|British, London 1757–1827 London