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Brute folly

Brute folly
(Disparate de bestia)
1816-1823; published 1877
additonal plate from Los Disparates (The follies), 1864

Medium
etching and aquatint in dark umber ink
Measurements
25.4 × 36.0 cm (plate) 28.0 × 38.6 cm (sheet)
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Harris 268.II
Edition
proof before letters
Printing/Publishing
published by L'Art, Paris
Accession Number
P3-1983
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1982
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Allegory and Symbols Animals Humour and Satire
Subjects (specific)
elephant (animal) men (male humans) satire (artistic device)
Movements
Romanticism (modern European styles)