Plate 4: A Lying-in Visit, A Round Dance, from "World in Miniature"

Thomas Rowlandson British
Publisher Rudolph Ackermann, London British

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One of forty prints from Rowlandson's "World in Miniature; Consisting of Groups of Figures, for the Illustration of Landscape Scenery."

Three scenes: at top, a lying-in visit with the mother in a rocking chair at left and a baby being admired by three ladies at right; at middle, a round dance with fiddle players at left; below, ship-building on the shore.

Plate 4: A Lying-in Visit, A Round Dance, from "World in Miniature", Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Hand-colored etching

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