The Art of Ingeniously Tormenting

Thomas Tegg|Thomas Rowlandson|George Murgatroyd Woodward

February 8, 1808 · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints

One of five plates after Woodward. Images inspired by the novelist Jane Collier's (1714-1755) "An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting" (1753), a satirical advice book giving advice on how to nag, including methods to tease and mortify. Modelled on Jonathan Swift's satirical essays.

Artist

Thomas Tegg|Thomas Rowlandson|George Murgatroyd Woodward

Date

February 8, 1808

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959