Salt Water and Fresh Water

Thomas Rowlandson British
Publisher Rudolph Ackermann, London British

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Two scenes on one plate. In the top scene a hefty nude woman is helped frin a bathing maching into the water a younger nude woman and older dressed woman. Within the enclosure there are two partially clothed women. In the background there is a second bathing machine with a nude woman shown falling into the water but held around the waist by another figure.
In the bottom scene, within an interior by an open fireplace, a hefty nude man falls back in a wooden tub as he is scrubbed by an older woman. At left a young woman pours in hot water from a kettle onto the man.

Salt Water and Fresh Water, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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