The Metropolitan Museum of Art

An Italian Family

Artist:: After Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
Publisher:: Published by Samuel Alken (British, London 1756–1815)
Date:: December 1785
Medium:: Hand-colored etching and aquatint
Dimensions:: sheet: 14 3/8 x 18 1/4 in. (36.5 x 46.4 cm)
Classification:: Prints
Credit Line:: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number:: 59.533.1787

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Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Signature: in plate: "T. Rowlandson delin." "S. Alken fecit"
Provenance

Francis Harvey (British, active by 1859–died 1899); C. W. Dyson Perrins(sale Sotheby's London, Jan. 12, 1959); Vendor: Sotheby's, London , Jan. 12, 1959, lot 163
Catalogue Raisonné

Grego, Rowlandson I.170 (Dec. 1785), 314 (1792) and II.393 (Nov. 5, 1792); British Museum Satires 9670
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