Bitter Fare or Sweeps Regaling

Thomas Rowlandson

1812 · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints

A family of chimney sweepers sitting before a smoking hearth, eating, drinking and smoking. All have sooty skin except the mother who leans back, barebreasted. A man sits beside her, smoking a long pipe and four children are on the floor eating with spoons from bowls.

Artist

Thomas Rowlandson

Date

1812

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959