A Lying In Visit
Thomas Rowlandson|John Harris
1798 · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints
A new mother sits in a chair at right, near a cradle. Her baby is held by a nurse and passed to a woman visitor seated at left to kiss. Further to the left, an elderly woman holds a muff, and a younger woman holds a cup of tea. A reverse copy of a Rowlandson print of 1808.
- Artist
- Thomas Rowlandson|John Harris
- Date
- 1798
- Medium
- Hand-colored etching
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959