A Bawd on Her Last Legs

1784, published 1792

Thomas Rowlandson

Artist, British, 1756 - 1827

S. W. Fores

Publisher, British

Thomas Rowlandson (artist); S W Fores (publisher)

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, aquatint, and lift-ground aquatint with hand coloring on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 27.5 × 37.5 cm (10 13/16 × 14 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1945.5.204

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Grego 1880, Vol. I, no. 311

Associated Artworks

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Caricatures (volume I)

Thomas Rowlandson

1756

The Bum Shop

British 18th Century, S. W. Fores

1785

The Maiden Speech

Thomas Rowlandson

1785

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 / 1792; in plate, below image, at center: A BAWD ON HER LAST LEGS. / Pub Oct.r 1 1792 by SW Fores No 3 Piccadilly

Wikidata ID

Q65025880

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