# Fish Fishing for People [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GRANDVILLE, Jean-Jacques]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Print ## Commentary Duality is a source of wistful comedy. Grandville, the 'king of caricature', in disturbing prints like his series Today's Metamorphoses \(1829\) and Un Autre Monde \(1844\), animated flowers, animals dressed as humans, or as in Fish Fishing for People, exchanging roles with them, suggest the uncontrollable transformations that our multiple identities might produce. ## Related artworks - [Frenzied Romans at the First Performance of Hernani]() - [Steam Concert]() - [Thistle]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()