Plate 26: A Flying Wagon, 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." The Kendal Flying Machine, a wagon, is parked outside of an inn. A woman climbs up a ladder into the wagon. Three men stand at right.

Artist

Thomas Rowlandson|Rudolph Ackermann, London

Date

1816

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1917