''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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4. Michalle Benedetti (1745-1810) after Anton Hickel (1745-1798) The Night Beauty |
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The Night Beauty
Stipple engraving, 1793, 285 x 229 mm. Shielding himself from the blinding reality of this beauty-in-the-dark, our hero wonders about his situation. Two centuries later, the lines of a country song parallel his plight: "I never went to bed with a ugly woman, but I sure woke up with a few." A fine impression on wove paper with narrow margins. Printed in blue, red, black and brown, the text in black.
