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Off She Goes

Hand-colored etching

Rights: Public Domain

Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection The Elisha Whittelsey Fund 1959

Thomas Rowlandson (Artist) After George Murgatroyd Woodward (Artist) Thomas Tegg (Publisher)

Prints Satire Men Women Dogs Ladders

1812

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Hand-colored etching.

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