The Mecoo & Kisbee Kishee Monkeys

1793

William Blake after John Gabriel Stedman

Associated Names
William Blake

Artist, British, 1757 - 1827

John Gabriel Stedman

Artist After, British, 1744 - 1797

This print shows four monkeys in and around a tree. The tree is on the left, with long vines or ropes hanging from its branches. Two monkeys sit on the top branches, while another stands on one of the hanging vines, a baby monkey clinging to its back. On the far right, a monkey is in mid-air, jumping from the large tree down towards a smaller tree in the bottom right corner. The two monkeys in the branches look almost like small lions, while the other two are smaller, with white heads and dark areas from their noses to their chins. In the background, there is a flat body of water with a small person in a long boat. Behind that are mountains and dark bushes below and an empty sky of beige paper. Below the print there is a line of text.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 28.4 × 20.3 cm (11 3/16 × 8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.1830

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Keynes 1921, no. 111, State (iv)

  • Series Title

    Stedman's "Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition"


Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1921

  • Keynes, Geoffrey. A bibliography of William Blake. New York: Grolier Club, 1921.

Wikidata ID

Q64962816

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