An écorché face showing the movements of facial muscles during laughter. Stipple engraving by G.T. Stubbs after G. Stubbs, 1800.

London (97 High Street, Marylebone) : G.T. Stubbs, 11 January 1800.

1 print : stipple engraving

Laughter. Invented & modeled by Geo. Stubbs. Geo Townly Stubbs sculp engraver to HRH the Prince of Wales.

The Wellcome Library holds five prints in this series (see frame nos. 9676-9680). 'Laughter' appears twice, once in its first imprint, then its 1815 imprint, with the names of George and George Townley Stubbs removed. The series ran to 24 prints, all published in 1800, but with H. Singleton and W.F. Wells as inventors for the prints succeeding the first set of four. Their 1815 republication named C. Knight as engraver and Singleton as designer for the whole set; Knight, however, was the printer

Annabel Ledgard, Mr. Stubbs' views of the passions, The print collector's newsletter, vol. XVI, no. 1, March-April 1985

Exhibited in “George Stubbs: 'all done from Nature'”, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, 12 October 2019 - 26 January 2020

Wellcome Collection 34340i