Plate 17, 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." A fowler seated in a cart outside of a cottage, alongside baskets of birds. A woman bends down and reaches her hand into a basket of bird at center, a woman holds a dead bird at right, and a young boy holds a live bird in his hands beside her. In the background at left, a man chooses geese from a gaggle.

Artist

Rudolph Ackermann, London|Thomas Rowlandson

Date

1816

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1917