Plate 2, from "World in Miniature"
One of forty prints from Rowlandson's "World in Miniature; Consisting of Groups of Figures, for the Illustration of Landscape Scenery."
Scene of servants in the countryside, three at center choosing fish from a fishmonger, a young maid with a pitcher talking to a man at left, and a milkmaid handing a dish to a man at right.
Credit: Rogers Fund, 1917
1816
Hand-colored etching
17.3 x 24.3cm
17.49.2(2)
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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