The Bank

Thomas Rowlandson

January 1792 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

The interior of Sir Robert Taylor's rotunda in the Bank of England when it was used as a stock exchange. At right, a man wearing a cocked hat stands above a crowd of excited bidders. On the wall above his head is the notice: "No Clerk to act as broker."

Artist

Thomas Rowlandson

Date

January 1792

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959