Cartoon, Titianus Redivivus

Cartoon, Titianus Redivivus [Titian Born Again], or, The Seven Wise Men consulting the new Venetian Oracle, a Scene in the Academic Grove, by James Gillray. The cartoon satirises a woman named Anna Provis who claimed to have rediscovered the lost secret of Titian's painting technique. The President of the Royal Academy and other leading members of the art establishment were taken in by the woman's claim, but her career did not last long after the publication of this print

Picture No

10956057

Media ID

48223554

Size

4899px x 6566px (9.1MB)

Credit

Source

Cartoon in The Works of James Gillray, the Caricaturist; with the History of His Life and Times, edited by Thomas Wright, 1873

Date

1797