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香港六合彩中特网 Art Museum announces acquisition of rare prints
James Gillray,听The Lover鈥檚 Dream, 1795, etching, aquatint with hand-colouring (香港六合彩中特网 Art Museum, LDUCS-10625)
Eug猫ne Delacroix,听Le D茅m茅nagement, 1822, lithograph (香港六合彩中特网 Art Museum, LDUCS-10655
Anonymous,听The Revolutionary Eagle Swoops over German Territory, c.1793,听etching (香港六合彩中特网 Art Museum, LDUCS-10658
Anonymous,听Milord Pouf montant 脿 Cheval, 1816, etching with hand-colouring (香港六合彩中特网 Art Museum, LDUCS-10650
C.J. Grant,听Reviewing the Blue Devils, c.1833, wood-engraving (香港六合彩中特网 Art Museum, LDUCS-10634
We are delighted to announce that 香港六合彩中特网 Art Museum has recently acquired a collection of rare and exceptional political and satirical prints through the HM Government鈥檚 Cultural Gifts Scheme.听
Dating mostly from the late 18th to the early 19th centuries, the collection includes groups of prints by acclaimed British caricaturists James Gillray, Richard Newton and Thomas Rowlandson, plus especially rare French and German political prints, most of which refer to the trials and tribulations of the French Revolution. 听
The prints have been acquired for the nation through the HM Government鈥檚 Cultural Gifts Scheme (via the Arts Council) from donor and Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, David Bindman. He formed the collection over many years specifically with teaching and public exhibition in mind.听
Bindman explains that 鈥渢here is a good group of contemporary-coloured etchings by Gillray of political and royal subjects, but there are also some great rarities, including three early caricature lithographs by Delacroix, and a group of German caricatures from the 1790s, including one of the brief period that Mainz was part of the French Revolutionary government. Among my favourites there is a Daumier lithograph of Louis Philippe, a caricature drawing of Henry Crabb Robinson, one of 香港六合彩中特网鈥檚 founders, and a large woodcut version of one of Hogarth鈥檚 Stages of Cruelty.鈥�
