A Doleful Disaster, or Miss Fubby Fatarmin's Wig Caught Fire
Thomas Tegg|Thomas Rowlandson
September 20, 1813 · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints
A plump lady's hair is on fire and has overturned a chair and tea tray. Screaming servants rush in from the right. A footman holds up a table-cloth to fling over her head, and his companion flings the liquid contents of a bucket in her face.
- Artist
- Thomas Tegg|Thomas Rowlandson
- Date
- September 20, 1813
- Medium
- Hand-colored etching
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959