Setting out from Edinburgh (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the Second)
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 3/16 × 11 7/8 in. (25.8 × 30.2 cm) Plate: 10 1/16 × 10 7/8 in. (25.6 × 27.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.888-357
Tags
About the Artist
Thomas Rowlandson|Samuel Collings|Samuel Johnson|James Boswell|Elizabeth Jackson · 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...