Frog Hunting

Frog Hunting by Thomas Rowlandson|Thomas Rowlandson

Medium

Etching and aquatint, printed in brown ink

Dimensions

Plate: 8 3/4 × 11 9/16 in. (22.2 × 29.3 cm) Sheet: 9 5/16 × 12 3/16 in. (23.7 × 31 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959

Accession Number

59.533.351

About the Artist

Thomas Rowlandson|Thomas Rowlandson · 17561827

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...

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