House-Breakers
Thomas Rowlandson|S. W. Fores|Thomas Malton
August 1, 1791 · Hand-colored etching and aquatint · Drawings and Prints
Two men holding pistols look around a partly open door at a couple in a bedroom at night. Stepping from the bed, the man wears a night shirt and aims a blunderbuss at the burglars, as his wife kneels behind him. A candle burns on a table at left and there is an overturned chamber pot on the floor. Within a printed aquatint border.
- Artist
- Thomas Rowlandson|S. W. Fores|Thomas Malton
- Date
- August 1, 1791
- Medium
- Hand-colored etching and aquatint
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959