Medium
Hand-colored etching and aquatint
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 3/4 × 5 3/8 in. (22.3 × 13.6 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
59.533.1620(20)
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Terrace Steps (1813)** is a delightful hand-colored etching and aquatint by a stellar team of Regency-era talents: caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson engravers Joseph Constantine Stadler and Green, and publisher Rudolphermann of London. Measuring just 8 3/4 × 5 3/8 inches, this compact print captures a bustling social scene on terrace steps, fun at the manners and mishaps of men and women amid Britain's vibrant early 19th-century high society. Rowlandson's signature satirical style shines here, likely lampooning flirtations, awkward encounters, or class pretensions in a public setting—common th...