A Bankrupt Cart, or The Road to Ruin in the East!

Thomas Rowlandson British
 After George Murgatroyd Woodward British
 Publisher Rudolph Ackermann, London British

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A family drives in a rough two-wheeled cart drawn by a clumsy carthorse. The man drives, wearing a cocked hat and his wife wears large feathers in her small straw cap and holds up a fan. A boy and girl are squeezed in the back. A grinning footman rides behind them.

A Bankrupt Cart, or The Road to Ruin in the East!, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Etching

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