Walking Up the High Street, Edinburgh (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the First)

Walking Up the High Street, Edinburgh (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the First) by Thomas Rowlandson|Samuel Collings|Elizabeth Jackson|James Boswell|Samuel Johnson

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Sheet: 10 1/2 × 12 3/8 in. (26.6 × 31.4 cm) Plate: 9 3/4 × 10 3/16 in. (24.7 × 25.8 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917

Accession Number

17.3.888-359

Tags

StreetsMenWalking

About the Artist

Thomas Rowlandson|Samuel Collings|Elizabeth Jackson|James Boswell|Samuel Johnson · 17561827

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...

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