Terror or Fright.This Passion is frequently exited by dressing up firghtful objects to represent Sprites, Apparitions &c: frequently practiced with success in Country Villages, as delineated in the above sketch of the Countryman & the Ghost.
Woodward Del. Etchd by Rowlandson.
London Pub. 21. Jan 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Watermark: Russell Co. 1799. 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. Terror is portrayed by a countryman being terrified by a person dressed up as a ghost. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46602] £160.00
London Pub. 21. Jan 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand.
Hand-coloured etching. Watermark: Russell Co. 1799. 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. Terror is portrayed by a countryman being terrified by a person dressed up as a ghost. From the series 'Le Brun Travested or Caricatures of the Passion'.
BM Satire 9628-9632.
[Ref: 46602] £160.00