Thomas Simmons
November 9, 1807
Medium
Hand-colored etching and stipple
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 6 1/2 in. (25.2 × 16.5 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
59.533.1990
Tags
Art Historical Context
This hand-colored etching and stipple print, dated November 9, 1807, depicts Thomas Simmons amid scenes of prisons and prisoners. Created through the combined efforts of Thomas Simmons, Henry Angelo, and the celebrated caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson, the work belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection of Drawings and Prints. Rowlandson’s distinctive style—marked by lively line work and social observation—infuses the image with a sense of immediacy. In early nineteenth-century Britain, prints like this one often commented on the realities of incarceration, from overcrowded gaols to...
About the Artist
Thomas Simmons|Henry Angelo|Thomas Rowlandson (British|British|British) · 1708 |1756 |1757 –1808 |1835 |1827
British, died 1808|British, London 1756–1835 London|British, London 1757–1827 London