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'Tis not Antiques Alone can Please the Eye, or Tastes Differ

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

'Tis not Antiques Alone can Please the Eye, or Tastes Differ

Thomas Rowlandson|T. Smith

Date
November 20, 1786
Medium
Hand-colored etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 1/8 × 8 1/2 in. (15.6 × 21.6 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
59.533.203
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

British, London 1757–1827 London|British, active London 1785–1800

Subjects and terms

  • Sleeping
  • Men
  • Women
  • Reading

The Met object ID 737573. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.