Greenwich Village Follies
Folly or Saintliness by José Echegaray
Artist: Ethel Reed (American, 1874–after 1900)
Publisher: Lamson Wolffe & Co.
Date: 1895
The Masque of the Red Death, for Edgar Allan Poe’s “Tales of Mystery and the Imagination,” Chicago, 1895–96
Artist: Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (British, Brighton, Sussex 1872–1898 Menton)
Author: Related author Edgar Allan Poe (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1809–1849 Baltimore, Maryland)
Date: 1894
“Just Girls”
La Gourmandise (Gluttony), from “Les Péchées Capitaux” (The Deadly Sins)
Series/Portfolio: Les Péchées Capitaux
Artist: Jacques Callot (French, Nancy 1592–1635 Nancy)
Date: ca. 1620
Waist and Extravagance
Artist: William Heath (‘Paul Pry’) (British, Northumbria 1794/95–1840 Hampstead)
Publisher: Thomas McLean (British, 1788–1875)
Date: March 28, 1829
Ancient Military Dandies of 1450 – Modern Military Dandies of 1819
Artist: George Cruikshank (British, London 1792–1878 London)
Publisher: Thomas McLean (British, 1788–1875)
Date: August 1, 1835
‘Punctual Folly’ from the ‘Disparates’ (Follies / Irrationalities. Plate B)
Artist: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746–1828 Bordeaux)
Emblem of Folly
Plate 9: The Greeks opening the bag of wind, thinking there is gold inside, driving their vessel to the island of Circe
Series/Portfolio: “Le Pitture di Pellegrino Tibaldi e di Niccolò Abbate esistenti nell’Instituto di Bologna”
Date: 1756
La Folie l’égare (Folly Adrift)
Artist: Jean-Baptiste Mallet (French, Grasse 1759–1835 Paris)
Circe changing the companions of Ulysses into beasts
Ziegfeld Follies: 1939
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
Artist: Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois)
Date: 19th century
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