Christopher Crabtree in the Suds: "Dear, dear what can the matter be"

John Britton|Thomas Rowlandson|Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme

1807 · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints

In a washerwoman's parlor, hung with drying laundry, Christopher Crabtree steps into an over flowing tub, causing a woman and figures seated around a table to react with alarm. In a room at the top of a stair, another woman looks in and laughs as a washerwoman talks to a couple by a window. Mounted with four other scenes designed and etched by Rowlandson: 59.533.1022(2-3, 5-6) and title page 59.533.1022(1).

Artist

John Britton|Thomas Rowlandson|Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme

Date

1807

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959