Terms and conditions of use
Calves' heads and brains or A phrenological lecture
1826
Medium
hand-coloured soft-ground etching and engraving
Measurements
20.2 × 28.9 cm (image) 24.7 × 32.6 cm (plate) 25.9 × 33.4 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1926
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
BM Satires 15158
Inscription
printed in ink l.r.: J.Lump delt. L.Bump sc.
printed in ink l.c.: London Published Sep.r (r in superscript above . ) 1826 for the Artist at S.t (t in superscript above . ) Peters alley Corn Hill
printed in ink u.c.: CALVES’ HEADS AND BRAINS: OR A PHRENOLOGICAL LECTURE.
printed in ink l.l.-l.r.: Ladies and Gentlemen CONCLUDING ADDRESS / Having thus concluded the hundred and thirty ninth article, under the Head or Section of Propensities: … (three lines of text) … Dear Ladies, Worthy Gentlemen; adieu.
printed in ink (in image) u.l.-l.c.: (text on books, jar, busts, picture frames and posters)
Accession Number
2452-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Humour and Satire Philosophy, Scholarship, Learning and Teaching
Subjects (specific)
audiences busts (sculpture) heads (animal components) heads (representations) human behaviour lectures phrenology skulls (skeleton components)
Movements
Regency (British)