Cold Broth & Calamity

Artist and publisher Thomas Rowlandson British
After Henry Wigstead British

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A skating scene shows men falling through thin ice while skating. At center three figures are intertangled in a hole, with two stretching their arms onto the ice and another represented by his legs only. At left two additional heads bob above the ice, and at right two men who look over at them trip and fall. The drama is watched from shore by three men who stand near a tent that flies a flag.

Cold Broth & Calamity, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Hand-colored etching

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