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The Political Hydra Wall Art
ART BY: Thomas Rowlandson
The Political Hydra Wall Art
ART BY: Thomas Rowlandson
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The Political Hydra is a hand-colored etching by Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827), dated 1788. The artist is catalogued as English. The source scan comes from the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the file offered here measures 3752 × 2971 px (3.9 MB). It is filed under Prints and Neoclassicism, in landscape format. Archive Lane holds 2,769 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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