How to Lose Your Way
Medium
Hand-colored etching
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 4 7/16 × 6 1/4 in. (11.3 × 15.9 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
59.533.1740
Tags
Art Historical Context
**How to Lose Your Way**1803–1815) is a delightful hand-colored etching attributed to Henry William Bunbury Thomas Rowlandson, two masters of British caricature. This small-scale print (4 7/16 × 6 1/4 in.) captures a chaotic scene likely featuring flustered men and women in a wind-swept carriage mishap rearing horses, embodying the title's wry humor about navigational blunders. Rowlandson, renowned for his exaggerated figures and lively social commentary, often collaborated or inspired works like this, drawing from Bunbury's whimsical sketchesCreated during the Regency era, the artwork reflect...