Plate 18, 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." Two scenes: at top, an old man, officer, woman, and young girl inspect an elaborate urn on a pedestal at left, and a couple sits on a bench at right. Below, a man and two women sit on the grass at left, drinking and smoking, and a man bowls skittles at right while a young girl and two men watch.

Artist

Thomas Rowlandson|Rudolph Ackermann, London

Date

1816

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1917