Tea (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the First)
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 10 11/16 in. (25.2 × 27.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924
Accession Number
24.63.2054
Tags
About the Artist
Thomas Rowlandson|Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck|Samuel Collings|Alexander Macdonald , 1st Baron Macdonald of Slate|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...