Weeping. No. 13.As Laughter is often exited by the most simple causes, so frequently is Weeping in this instance the hard & obourate features, that would be callous to real sufferings melts at the fancied sorrows of a Village love Ballad.
Woodward Del. Etchd by Rowlandson.
London Pub. 21. Jan 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 270 x 220mm (10½ x 8½"). Binding holes in left margin. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. 'Weeping' is portrayed by two figures crying at a sad ballad. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46598] £130.00
London Pub. 21. Jan 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 270 x 220mm (10½ x 8½"). Binding holes in left margin. Trimmed to plate.
A comic scene satirising the artist Charles le Brun's 'Expressions des passions de l'Ame' which portray faces expressing various emotions. 'Weeping' is portrayed by two figures crying at a sad ballad. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46598] £130.00