Skip to main content
Tickets Membership Donate Shop Reserve a Table at Gertrude's
“Fools ne’er had less grace in a year”

Thomas Landseer and Moon, Boys & Graves

“Fools ne’er had less grace in a year”

1826-1827

Scroll
“Fools ne’er had less grace in a year”

Thomas Landseer and Moon, Boys & Graves

“Fools ne’er had less grace in a year”

“Fools ne’er had less grace in a year”

1826-1827

Physical Qualities Etching, 375 × 263 mm. (14 3/4 × 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number 1996.48.10406
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art, through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris

Inscribed: below image, lower center, in plate "Fools ne'er had less grace in a year / [...]"

Markings: none

Artist

Thomas Landseer

1794–1879

English, 1795-1880
Meet Thomas Landseer

Publisher

Moon, Boys & Graves

1826–1835

operated 1827 - 1836
Meet Moon, Boys & Graves
Not on View

Explore the Collection Further

BY SAME ARTIST
PRINTS, DRAWINGS & PHOTOGRAPHS
LION AND TIGER
Thomas Landseer, George Stubbs, and others
Lion & Tiger after Stubbs
1822
SIR... HERE IS WHAT WE WILL BE GIVING THIS YEAR AS A BONUS TO THE SUBSCRIBERS OF THE MUSICAL UNIVERSE... 125 ALBUMS THAT YOU CAN HAVE BOUND, SOME MORE MAGNIFICENTLY THAN OTHERS. ELEVEN PORTRAITS OF MR. MUSARD, AT DIFFERFENT AGES, BUT ALWAYS WITH THE SAME BLACK SUIT. THREE TRUMPETS, MORE OR LESS IN KEY. FORTY ADMISSION TICKETS, EVEN EXIT TICKETS, FOR EACH OF OUR CONCERTS...EIGHTY SEVEN MUSICAL SCORES...AND A REED PIPE.
Honoré Daumier
Sir... here is what we will be giving this year as a bonus to the subscribers of the Musical Universe... 125 albums that you can have bound, some more magnificently than others. Eleven portraits of Mr. Musard, at differfent ages, but always with the same black suit. Three trumpets, more or less in key. Forty admission tickets, even exit tickets, for each of our concerts...Eighty seven musical scores...and a reed pipe.
1844
ILLUSTRATION FOR THE "DEVIL'S WALK"
Thomas Landseer
Illustration for the "Devil's Walk"
1830
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Thomas Landseer and Benjamin Robert Haydon
William Wordsworth
1830
ESKIMO DOGS
Thomas Landseer and Robert Jennings
Exquimaux Dogs, after W.R. Smith
1834
THE MUSK BULL
Thomas Landseer and Moon, Boys & Graves
The Musk Bull
1828
FOX HOUNDS OF THE HATFIELD HUNT
Thomas Landseer and Edwin Henry Landseer
Fox Hounds of the Hatfield Hunt
1847–1857
8 (MILLION TONS OF PLASTIC THAT GO INTO THE SEA EACH YEAR)
Hayal Pozanti and Tamarind Institute
8 (million tons of plastic that go into the sea each year)
2017