Monkeys Boxing, from Monkey-ana

Prints and Drawings

April 1828

Thomas Landseer
English, 1795-1880

This pugilistic print comes from Monkeyana, the satirical masterpiece by Thomas Landseer, the printmaker brother of the famed animal portraitist Edwin Landseer. Each of the 25 etchings in the series features misbehaving monkeys dressed in human clothes—whether impersonating Cupid or stomping on a copy of Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man. These prize fighters have drawn a raucous crowd, and the incongruous theatricality of the print is only increased by the inclusion of a line from Macbeth, William Shakespeare’s play about a power-crazed Scottish king.

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Artist: Thomas Landseer
Title: Monkeys Boxing, from Monkey-ana
Place: England (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.: Artist's working dates 1815–1880
Medium: Etching in black on paper
Credit Line: Bequest of Katherine S. Dreier
Reference Number: 1953.233
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