A Bawd on Her Last Legs

1784, pubished 1785

Thomas Rowlandson

Artist, British, 1756 - 1827

Elizabeth Jackson

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, aquatint, and lift-ground aquatint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 29.8 × 41.5 cm (11 3/4 × 16 5/16 in.)
    plate: 27.2 × 37.8 cm (10 11/16 × 14 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1945.5.203

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Grego 1880, Vol. I, no. 311


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2021

  • Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

1880

  • Grego, Joseph. Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures. 2 vols. London: Chattoand Windus, 1880. Reprint. New York: Collector's Editions, 1970.

Inscriptions

in plate, in image, at lower left: T Rowlandson / 1784; in plate, below image, at center: A BAWD ON HER LAST LEGS. / Pub.d 1.st June 1785 by E. Jackson No. 14 Marybone Street Golden Sq.r

Wikidata ID

Q65025879


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