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."

Artwork Details

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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