''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
 |
5. Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) Todos Caeran (All Will Fall) |
 |
(click on image to print)
Todos Caeran (All Will Fall)
Etching & burnished aquatint, 1799, 216 x 144 mm., Harris 54 iii/iii First Edition, plate 19 from Caprichos. Ex Collection: Charles Deering (Lugt 516). Goya's opinion of mercenary love gives us this bizarre and gruesome scene, meant to warn men about prostitutes and their own lust. While an officer-bird, a monk-bird and other love-birds fly around a tempting woman-bird, down below a fallen bird is plucked naked by two prostitutes. This is an allusion to the classical allegorical motif of Eros having his wings clipped. The procuress kneels hypocritically in a position of prayer and looks up in enraptured anticipation for the others to fall. They ignore what is happening below them, so inevitably they too will be victimized. A fine impression on laid paper with full margins, very slight foxing and an inclusion in the paper, just below the title.
