Post Boys and Post Horses at the White Hart Inn
December 15th, 1787
Medium
Hand-colored etching and aquatint
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 1/4 × 9 15/16 in. (18.4 × 25.2 cm) Plate: 6 5/8 × 9 3/4 in. (16.8 × 24.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.34.1
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About the Artist
Thomas Rowlandson|John Harris · 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...