''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
The Bulstrode Siren
Etching, engraving & roulette, 1803, 359 x 258 mm. Before entering the Royal Academy in 1778, Gillray had apprenticed to a letter engraver, from whom he ran away to join a company of strolling players. He made this print during a time when amateur music was in vogue as a pretension to gentility. Many must have been tortured by this fashion just as this conspicuously plumed temptress sweetly tortures her gentleman caller with the soft melody akin to a penetrating fog horn. A fine impression on wove paper showing the borderline and text; another cartoon verso.