Plate 32, 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 countryside scene with a carriage entering through a gate at left. A hefty man seated beneath a tree at right, watching the birds in front of him as a woman feeds them. At left, a sign reads, "4 miles and 3 quaters [sic] from Shoreditch." Beneath the tree at right, a sign reads, "Two pounds reward whereas some malicious and unknown persons have distroyed my fences and stole my poultry."

Artist

Rudolph Ackermann, London|Thomas Rowlandson

Date

1816

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1917