A Bawd on Her Last Legs, 1784, published 1792

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Medium

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

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Grego 1880, Vol. I, no. 311

Accession Number

1945.5.204

Artists / Makers

Thomas Rowlandson (artist) British, 1756 - 1827

S. W. Fores (publisher) British

Image Use

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Inscription

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

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.