Pastoral Riverside Scene

Pastoral Riverside Scene by Thomas Rowlandson|Paul Sandby|John Thane

Medium

Etching, printed in brown ink

Dimensions

Plate: 11 13/16 × 14 13/16 in. (30 × 37.7 cm) Sheet: 15 1/16 × 19 13/16 in. (38.3 × 50.3 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934

Accession Number

34.57.2

About the Artist

Thomas Rowlandson|Paul Sandby|John Thane · 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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