''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
Estan Caliente (They are Hot)
Etching & burnished aquatint, 1799, 216 x 144 mm., Harris 48 iii/iii First Edition, plate 13 from Caprichos. This loaded image is a testimony to Goya's natural aptitude for combining realism with mordant wit. In a drawing related to this print, the foremost monk's nose is a phallus which is supported by a little crutch, for Goya offensively scorns the gluttony and sexual appetites of Church figures. The greed of the already richly endowed monastic orders is symbolized by the monks stuffing themeselves, and the caption suggests that they are in heat as well. The abuse and corruption of religous power in Spain prompted Goya to write, "these were the men who were devouring us." A fine impression in dark brown on laid paper with good margins.