The Consultation, or Last Hope
June 30, 1808
Medium
Hand-colored etching
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed and inset): 9 in. × 13 1/4 in. (22.8 × 33.7 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
59.533.2054
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
George Murgatroyd Woodward|Thomas Rowlandson · 1765–1809
**George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765–1809)**, often known as George “Moutard” or “Mustard” Woodward, was an English caricaturist and humor writer whose energetic, sometimes crude drawings captured the social follies of late Georgian Britain. Born at Stanton Hall in Stanton by Dale, Derbyshire, as the son of William Woodward, he grew up in the county before moving to London around 1791–92. Woodward ...