Christopher Crabtree in the Suds: "Dear, dear what can the matter be"

Thomas Rowlandson British
Related author John Britton British
Publisher Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme British, London

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In a washerwoman's parlor, hung with drying laundry, Christopher Crabtree steps into an over flowing tub, causing a woman and figures seated around a table to react with alarm. In a room at the top of a stair, another woman looks in and laughs as a washerwoman talks to a couple by a window. Mounted with four other scenes designed and etched by Rowlandson: 59.533.1022(2-3, 5-6) and title page 59.533.1022(1).

Christopher Crabtree in the Suds: "Dear, dear what can the matter be", Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Hand-colored etching

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