House-Breakers

Drawn and etched by Thomas Rowlandson British
 Aquatint by Thomas Malton British
 Publisher S. W. Fores British

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Two men holding pistols look around a partly open door at a couple in a bedroom at night. Stepping from the bed, the man wears a night shirt and aims a blunderbuss at the burglars, as his wife kneels behind him. A candle burns on a table at left and there is an overturned chamber pot on the floor. Within a printed aquatint border.

House-Breakers, Drawn and etched by Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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House-Breakers, Drawn and etched by Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Hand-colored etching and aquatint
House-Breakers, Drawn and etched by Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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