Dinners Drest in the Neatest Manner

Thomas Rowlandson|Thomas Tegg

October 1811 · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints

Dinners Drest in the Neatest Manner — Thomas Rowlandson|Thomas Tegg

A grotesque, rheumy old cook with running nose and mouth prepared pastry for a pie. Behind him a slatternly woman with an exposed breast takes a dish from a shelf from which rats escape to the next dish.

Artist
Thomas Rowlandson|Thomas Tegg
Date
October 1811
Medium
Hand-colored etching
Department
Drawings and Prints
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959

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