Plate 4: A Lying-in Visit, A Round Dance, from "World in Miniature"

Thomas Rowlandson|Rudolph Ackermann, London

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." Three scenes: at top, a lying-in visit with the mother in a rocking chair at left and a baby being admired by three ladies at right; at middle, a round dance with fiddle players at left; below, ship-building on the shore.

Artist

Thomas Rowlandson|Rudolph Ackermann, London

Date

1816

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1917