Veneration (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)
Medium
Etching, printed in brown ink
Dimensions
sheet: 10 15/16 x 8 7/8 in. (27.8 x 22.5 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
59.533.692
Tags
Art Historical Context
This satirical etching from January 1800, created by George Murgatroyd Woodward and Thomas Rowlandson and published by Rudolph Ackermann in London, playfully reimagines Charles Le Brun’s influential 17th-century treatise on the “passions.” Titled *Veneration (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)*, the print uses exaggerated facial expressions and gestures to poke fun at the idea that human emotions can be neatly categorized and depicted. Printed in brown ink on a modest sheet, it belongs to a long tradition of British caricature that thrived in the late Georgian period. Rowlands...