Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Old Man!... plate 2 from Various Subjects Drawn from Life and on Stone (The English Suite)

February 1821

Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault (French, 1791-1824)
printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel (German and English, 1789-1850)
published by Rodwell and Martin

These lithographs from The English Suite exhibit Théodore Géricault’s attention to working horses and the urban poor of 19th-century London. Two prints depict the horse-shoeing process; in one, the French farrier holds the horse’s hoof while an apprentice prepares a horseshoe in the back room. In another print, a Flemish farrier affixes the hot metal. In the pair of prints, an elderly man and woman are stranded in the city streets; bakers ignore the man slumped below their open shop window.

Status: On View, Gallery 220
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault
Title: Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Old Man!... plate 2 from Various Subjects Drawn from Life and on Stone (The English Suite)
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1821
Medium: Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: Image: 31.7 × 37.1 cm (12 1/2 × 14 5/8 in.); Sheet: 37.6 × 49.5 cm (14 13/16 × 19 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Alan Rutenberg; Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1991.228.9
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Beraldi 27

Delteil 31 II/II

Rouen, Géricault Complete Prints Exh. 27 II/II

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