Friday, March 9, 2012

J.J. Isidore Grandville

In the research I'm doing for my bachelor's essay, I came across the early 19th century french caricaturist J.J. Isidore Grandville.  Besides having a bitchin' name, he did amazing illustrations of animals as caricatures of the bourgeoisie figures of his day. Now, I love a good anthropomorphic engraving, and his are some of the most evocative I've every seen:





All images from here

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