Stage Coach Setting Down at the Dolphin Inn
December 3, 1788
Medium
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 3/16 × 8 15/16 in. (15.7 × 22.7 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
59.533.268
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the bustling world of 18th-century England with *Stage Coach Setting Down at the Dolphin Inn*, a lively etching and aquatint by Thomas Rowlandson (with William Rowlandson), dated December 3, 1788. This print captures a quintessential moment of travel: a stagecoach pulling up to a roadside inn, surrounded by horses, carriages, men, women, and townsfolk. Rowlandson, a master of British caricature and satire, delighted in depicting everyday life with humor and sharp social observation, often poking fun at the chaos of public transport and hospitality. In late Georgian Britain, stagecoa...
About the Artist
William Rowlandson|Thomas Rowlandson (British|British) · 1757 |1756 –1827 |1789
British, London 1757–1827 London|British, active 1788