Plate 2, from "World in Miniature"

Rudolph Ackermann, London|Thomas Rowlandson

1816 · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints

One of forty prints from Rowlandson's "World in Miniature; Consisting of Groups of Figures, for the Illustration of Landscape Scenery." Scene of servants in the countryside, three at center choosing fish from a fishmonger, a young maid with a pitcher talking to a man at left, and a milkmaid handing a dish to a man at right.

Artist

Rudolph Ackermann, London|Thomas Rowlandson

Date

1816

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1917