Dinners Drest in the Neatest Manner

Thomas Rowlandson British
 Publisher Thomas Tegg British

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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.

Dinners Drest in the Neatest Manner, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Hand-colored etching

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Dinners Drest in the Neatest Manner, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Hand-colored etching
Dinners Drest in the Neatest Manner, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Hand-colored etching

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