Metamorphoses of the Day
Date1829
Artist
J. J. Grandville
(French illustrator and caricaturist, 1803–1847)
Illustration CitationFrom Metamorphoses du Jour, by J. J. Grandville (Paris: Garnier Freres, 1929)
MediumColor lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 10 7/16 × 13 3/4 in. (26.5 × 34.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1991
Object number1991-53
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Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextIn 1829, J. J. Grandville published a successful series of 70 lithographic caricatures entitled The Metamorphoses of the Day, depicting animals in human attire and participating in human activities, as a way of commenting on social, political and cultural issues of the day.-Give me a half-ounce of an emetic in a small packet for a lady who has had an attack. --This isn’t a pharmacy.
