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Housebreakers
1788; published 1791
Medium
hand-coloured etching and aquatint
Measurements
23.2 × 31.5 cm (image) 29.2 × 37.3 cm (image and text) 32.8 × 39.0 cm (plate) 33.0 × 40.2 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1949
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Grego I pp. 233–35, 293–95
Printing/Publishing
published by S. W. Fores, London
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: Rowlandson 1788. / Drawn & Etch’d by T,, Rowlandson
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: Aquatinta by T,, Malton
printed in ink l.c.: HOUSE-BREAKERS. / Pub. aug 1. 1791 by S. W Fores N3 Piccadilly.
Accession Number
2098.2-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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