The Harmonic Society

Thomas Rowlandson

1810 · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints

The Harmonic Society — Thomas Rowlandson

An 1811 reissue of a print first published in 1810. A scene of drunken disorder at a dinner of men, all elderly except for a young man who dances atop the table. Most of the men fight savagely with fists, bottles, and fire irons.

Artist
Thomas Rowlandson
Date
1810
Medium
Hand-colored etching
Department
Drawings and Prints
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959