Sports of a Country Fair

Thomas Rowlandson|Thomas Tegg

October 5, 1810 · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints

Part of a series. A theater is on fire, and a crowd rushes through the doorway, down the stairs, and fall into a pile at the bottom. A woman climbs down from the balcony at right, and two men grab onto her shoes. A musician loses his violin beside her at right.

Artist

Thomas Rowlandson|Thomas Tegg

Date

October 5, 1810

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by Exchange, 1970