Soldiers Cooking
Medium
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 5/16 × 11 5/8 in. (23.6 × 29.5 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
59.533.228
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Soldiers Cooking** (April 1, 1798) is a lively etching and aquatint print the renowned British caricaturist Thomasson, in collaboration with Heinrich Joseph Schutz and published by Rudolph Ackermann in. Measuring 9 5/16 × 11 5/8 inches, this work captures a candid moment of military domesticity, featuring soldiers tending pots over a fire alongside women engaged in washing. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department as part of The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, it exemplifies the vibrant print culture of late 18th-century Britain. Created amid the tensions of t...
About the Artist
Thomas Rowlandson|Heinrich Joseph Schütz|Rudolph Ackermann, London · 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...