Art Institute of Chicago
Monkeys Boxing, from Monkey-ana
Thomas Landseer
- Date
- April 1828
- Medium
- Etching in black on paper
- Culture
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
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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