Quaker in Love

Author Related dramatist Charles Dibdin British
1815 (?)
Not on view
Text below this print associates the scene with Charles Dibdin's comic opera "The Quaker." The lines comes from a song used by the mian character uses to propose marriage. Rowlandson shows the main character outside a house placing his hand on the offered breast of a buxom young woman. Two women watch the scene from an open window above as a short, stocky man walks away at left near a sign lettered "Man traps placed in these grounds."

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Object Information
  • Title: Quaker in Love
  • Artist: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
  • Author: Related dramatist Charles Dibdin (British, 1745–1814)
  • Date: 1815 (?)
  • Medium: Hand-colored etching
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 7 15/16 in. (24.5 × 20.2 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
  • Object Number: 59.533.2110
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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