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Stealing the Preserves, 1815/20. Pen and red and black ink, with brush and watercolor, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper tipped onto cream wove paper.
Pen and red and black ink, with brush and watercolor, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper tipped onto cream wove paper · 27.5 × 22 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Stealing the Preserves
- Artist
- Thomas Rowlandson English, 1756-1827
- Date
- 1815/20
- Medium
- Pen and red and black ink, with brush and watercolor, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper tipped onto cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 27.5 × 22 cm (10 7/8 × 8 11/16 in.)
- Credit line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1756–1827
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.