''A mocking kiss''
Satire, Irony, and Caricature in prints and drawings
Satire, Irony, and Caricature in prints and drawings
- Ghezzi: The Master at the Harpsichord and His Two Disciples
- Hogarth: The Four Times of Day
- Anon. British: The Bishopric
- Benedetti: The Night Beauty
- Goya: All Will Fall
- Goya: They are Hot
- Goya: Yes he Broke the pot
- Rowlandson: Death Taking the Young Mother
- Rowlandson: Mr. Bullock's Exhibition of Laplanders
- Gillray: The Bulstrode Siren
- att. to Heath: The Wish Granted
- Desperret: ''The Charter is a reality...''
- Tregear: A Genius
- Travies de Villers: The Political Tower of Babel
- Anonymous (19th Century): The Gout
- Bracquemond: Margot la Critique
- Detouche: La Gourmandise
- Bellows: Solitude
- de Bruycker: Placing the Dragon
- Blampied: Deux Précieux
- Eichenberg: The Follies of the Court
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20. Edmund Blampied (1886-1966) Deux Précieux |
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Deux Précieux
Ink, and brown wash, 256 x 358 mm., signed and titled in ink. The pithiness of this drawing is matched by its clever contours. Swelling chests, inflated heads, and haughty expressions of the starched twosome makes this profile of affectation priceless in itself. The generous space on the left only intensifies their lofty dispositions. It is admirable that Blampied's skill as draughtsman does not conceal a certain affection for the targets of his good-natured fun.
