Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Horror
View through The Met
Hand-colored etching printed in brown ink, Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passions
Rights: Public Domain
Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passions, Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection The Elisha Whittelsey Fund 1959
Title: Horror
Description:
Hand-colored etching printed in brown ink, Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passions.
Related Results
An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle whilst two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by
An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle whilst two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by
Lettering: Madness, thou chaos of ye brain ... Invented & c by Wm. Hogarth. Lettering continues: "What art? That pleasure givst, and pain? Tyranny of fancy's reign! Mechanic fancy;...