Cartoon

“Would you mind acting as though you just discovered a gold mine?” Cartoonist George Price finds the humor in the everyday and pokes fun at people from all walks of life. Price is best known for his 60-year career as a cartoonist for The New Yorker; he was one of the early artists who shaped the look and feel of the magazine.

Christophe Huet (1700-1759), French artist of the Rococo period, illustrated this rare first edition depicting examples of “singerie.” Singerie, derived from the French word “monkey trick," a visual genre which features fashionably attired monkeys humorously imitating human behavior became a popular and amusing diversion for the upper classes in 18th century France. Singerie were depicted in paintings by such artists as Jean-Antoine Watteau as well as motifs in marquetry, textiles, and porcelain.