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Rural Sports, or How to Show Off a Well-shaped Leg

A work made of hand-colored etching on ivory wove paper.
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  • A work made of hand-colored etching on ivory wove paper.

Date:

published October 1811

Artist:

Thomas Rowlandson (English, 1756-1827)
published by Thomas Tegg (English, 1776-1845)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Thomas Rowlandson

Title

Rural Sports, or How to Show Off a Well-shaped Leg

Place

England (Artist's nationality:)

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Published 1811

Medium

Hand-colored etching on ivory wove paper

Dimensions

Image: 23 × 33.3 cm (9 1/16 × 13 1/8 in.); Plate: 24.7 × 34.7 cm (9 3/4 × 13 11/16 in.); Sheet: 26.5 × 40.5 cm (10 7/16 × 16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Joseph R. Shapiro

Reference Number

1956.695

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