Foreign Tour: Setting Forth on His Continental Travels, The Parting from Home, from "The Dance of Life"
June 1, 1817
Medium
Etching and aquatint; proof before letters
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 11/16 × 8 13/16 in. (14.5 × 22.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1950
Accession Number
50.535.7
About the Artist
Thomas Rowlandson|William Combe · 1756–1827
Thomas Rowlandson (1757–1827) was an English artist and caricaturist whose satirical watercolors and prints captured the social life of Georgian Britain with unparalleled wit and technical mastery. Alongside James Gillray, he is recognized as one of the greatest British graphic artists, and his distinctive flowing line and keen observations have made his work integral to understanding late 18th an...