Dinners Drest in the Neatest Manner

Publisher Thomas Tegg British
October 1811
Not on view
A grotesque, rheumy old cook with running nose and mouth prepared pastry for a pie. Behind him a slatternly woman with an exposed breast takes a dish from a shelf from which rats escape to the next dish.

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Object Information
  • Title: Dinners Drest in the Neatest Manner
  • Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
  • Publisher: Thomas Tegg (British, London 1776–1846 London)
  • Date: October 1811
  • Medium: Hand-colored etching
  • Dimensions: Plate: 9 3/4 × 13 11/16 in. (24.7 × 34.8 cm)
    Sheet: 10 5/8 × 14 1/2 in. (27 × 36.8 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
  • Object Number: 59.533.1835
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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