''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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7. Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) Si Quebro El Cantaro (Yes he Broke the pot) |
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Si Quebro El Cantaro (Yes he Broke the pot)
Etching, aquatint & drypoint, 1799, 216 x 144 mm., Harris 60 iii/iii, plate 25 from Caprichos. Probably 3rd edition, 1868. This ill-tempered mother, clenching the boy's shirttail in her mouth, resembles a vicious animal. She has been transformed into a savage by her ill-temper. A broken pot is a minor misdeed compared to the mother's fierce behavior over a pot, which she values more than her child. This print comments on more than cruel child rearing. In the shadow of the Inquistion, Goya has created another case where the punishment exceeds the crime. A fairly good impression, the aquatint with patches of weakening, on wove paper with good margins.
