All Resolutions
(P. 142.)
Artist
- Name:
- Grandville, J.-J.
- Dates:
- 1803-1847
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Humor
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- The Getty Research Institute, The Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Un autre monde
- Author(s):
- Delord, Taxile
- Publisher:
- Paris: Henri Fournier, 1844
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
A performing artist with leonine hair and mustache stands among large planets while happily juggling smaller ones and their satellites, not heeding the medal (the Legion of Honor) falling out like a shooting star, greedily awaited by a tiny man standing on the earthly globe.
The caption reads in the original French: Ces boules n’étaient rien moins [sic] que des univers.
Keywords: 1840s, 19th century, black & white, eerie, fantasy, performance
