Connoisseurs, June 20, 1799, Hand-colored etching, Sheet: 10 11/16 × 8 7/16 in. (27.2 × 21.4 cm), Prints, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Rowlandson here directs his visual wit against a group of elderly art enthusiasts who lean in appreciatively to examine a painting of Venus and Cupid. Their lecherous expressions, the voluptuous subject before them, and the biblical scene of Susanna and the elders on the wall behind all suggest that their devotion to art does not arise out of aesthetic appreciation alone
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