Girl with a Basket and Birdcage Adjusting Her Garter

Francis Wheatley|Thomas Rowlandson

1785–95 · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints

Girl with a Basket and Birdcage Adjusting Her Garter — Francis Wheatley|Thomas Rowlandson

A country girl has set down a basket loaded with vegetables, props herself on a tree, and exposes her leg to tie her garter. Behind her, a man she is unaware of leans over the notch of a tree to admire her.

Artist
Francis Wheatley|Thomas Rowlandson
Date
1785–95
Medium
Hand-colored etching
Department
Drawings and Prints
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959