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The Laughing Philosopher Wall Art
ART BY: Thomas Rowlandson
The Laughing Philosopher Wall Art
ART BY: Thomas Rowlandson
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About this artwork
The Laughing Philosopher is an etching by Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827), dated 1808. The artist is catalogued as English. The original is held by the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the file offered here measures 1165 × 1877 px. You will find it among Prints and Neoclassicism, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 2,768 works by Thomas Rowlandson, a British artist.
Thomas Rowlandson was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian Era, noted for his political satire and social observation. A prolific artist and printmaker, Rowlandson produced both individual social and political satires, as well as a large number of illustrations for novels, humorous books, and topographical works.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Thomas Rowlandson →
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