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A White Sergeant giving the Word of Command: "Why don't you come to bed, you drunken sot?"

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A White Sergeant giving the Word of Command: "Why don't you come to bed, you drunken sot?"

Rudolph Ackermann, London|Thomas Rowlandson

Date
May 25, 1807
Medium
Hand-colored etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 11/16 × 12 5/8 in. (22 × 32 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
59.533.989
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Original Met record Wikidata Artist authority

Artist information

British, active 1794–1829|British, London 1757–1827 London

Subjects and terms

  • Satire
  • Men
  • Women
  • Smoking
  • Cats
  • Dogs

The Met object ID 811243. 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.