A Rough Sketch of the Times as Delineated by Sir Francis Burdett

Thomas Rowlandson British
 Publisher Thomas Tegg British
 Subject Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet British

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An 1811 reissue of a print first published in 1810. A scene of drunken disorder at a dinner of men, all elderly except for a young man who dances atop the table. Most of the men fight savagely with fists, bottles, and fire irons.

A Rough Sketch of the Times as Delineated by Sir Francis Burdett, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Hand-colored etching; reprint

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