A Magic Lantern

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A Magic Lantern

Thomas Rowlandson|Henri Merke|Rudolph Ackermann, London

Date
January 30, 1799
Medium
Hand-colored etching and aquatint
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 3/16 × 10 1/16 in. (33.5 × 25.5 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
59.533.656
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959

Artist information

British, London 1757–1827 London|Swiss, Niederweningen, canton Zürich ca. 1760–after 1820|British, active 1794–1829

Subjects and terms

  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
  • Spectators
  • Lanterns

The Met object ID 739379. 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.