Cleman e Belli

Cleman e Belli made prints in 1876, a snapshot of mid-19th-century visual culture. Their single confirmed work here, H Beard Print Collection, belongs to the Beard Collection, a set of satirical prints that poked fun at Victorian manners. These prints are small windows into the jokes and social critiques of the era, printed on paper and passed around like memes for parlors. See how the ink catches the light on the woman’s dress in H Beard Print Collection.