A Brace of Full-grown Puppies: or My Dog and Me

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

1807 · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints

A young couple in a richly furnished library. The foppish young man at right leans back in an armchair and pets a large dog. At left a pretty young woman holds a book and looks wistfully across at her husband. At right ar four classical busts, a fireplace, a cat, and a gothic revival desk over which hangs a caged bird. Mounted with four other scenes designed and etched by Rowlandson: 59.533.1022(2-4, 6) and title page 59.533.1022(1).

Artist

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

Date

1807

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959