A Sketch from Nature

Thomas Rowlandson|William Paulet Carey|John Raphael Smith

January 24, 1784 · Hand-colored etching and stipple, printed in brown ink · Drawings and Prints

A brothel scene with a fat bawd at left leaning back in an armchair and sleeping in a drunken stupor. She spills her glass onto a dog who eagerly laps at the contents. At center, two couples embrace. An officer at center leans on a table and holds a bottle while slinging his leg over a woman's lap. At right another young woman wrestles with a middle aged man whose wig is held aloft by the woman behind him.

Artist

Thomas Rowlandson|William Paulet Carey|John Raphael Smith

Date

January 24, 1784

Medium

Hand-colored etching and stipple, printed in brown ink

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959