A Sketch from Nature
A brothel scene with a fat bawd at left leaning back in an armchair and sleeping in a drunken stupor. She spills her glass onto a dog who eagerly laps at the contents. At center, two couples embrace. An officer at center leans on a table and holds a bottle while slinging his leg over a woman's lap. At right another young woman wrestles with a middle aged man whose wig is held aloft by the woman behind him.
Artwork Details
- Title: A Sketch from Nature
- Artist: William Paulet Carey (Irish, Dublin 1759–1839 Birmingham)
- Artist: After Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
- Publisher: John Raphael Smith (British, baptized Derby 1751–1812 Doncaster) , London
- Date: January 24, 1784
- Medium: Hand-colored etching and stipple, printed in brown ink
- Dimensions: Sheet: 12 1/8 in. × 16 in. (30.8 × 40.6 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
- Object Number: 59.533.36(a)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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