Quaker in Love

Thomas Rowlandson|Charles Dibdin

1815 (?) · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints

Text below this print associates the scene with Charles Dibdin's comic opera "The Quaker." The line comes from a song used by the main character to propose marriage. Rowlandson shows the main character outside a house placing his hand on the offered breast of a buxom young woman. Two women watch the scene from an open window above as a short, stocky man walks away at left near a sign lettered "Man traps placed in these grounds."

Artist

Thomas Rowlandson|Charles Dibdin

Date

1815 (?)

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959