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

Museum record 121988: Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Old Man!... plate 2 from Various Subjects Drawn from Life and on Stone (The English Suite) by Jean Louis…

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For Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Old Man!... plate 2 from Various Subjects Drawn from Life and on Stone (The English Suite) (record 121988), start with modern, expressive, atmospheric. Compare the focal subject, edge treatment, and atmo…

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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. MyArtTaste in…