Girl with a Basket and Birdcage Adjusting Her Garter
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 10 13/16 × 9 5/16 in. (27.4 × 23.7 cm) Sheet: 13 3/16 × 9 13/16 in. (33.5 × 25 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
59.533.474
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Girl with a Basket and Bird Adjusting Her Garter** a charming etching created between 1785 and 1795 by British artists Francis Wheatley and Rowlandson. Wheatley, known for his elegant genre scenes of everyday life, often collaborated with Rowlandson, a master caricaturist, who likely executed the intricate etching technique. Measuring about 11 by 9 inches on the plate, this print a intimate moment of a young woman adjusting her gar while holding a basket and birdcage, evoking the playful domesticity of late Georgian England. In the late 18th century, such scenes reflected a growing fascinat...
About the Artist
Francis Wheatley|Thomas Rowlandson · 1747–1801
British painter and draftsman. Comment on works: Landscapes; Portraits