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A White Sergeant giving the word of command - "Come to Bed you drunken sot"

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A White Sergeant giving the word of command - "Come to Bed you drunken sot"

Thomas Rowlandson|William McCleary

Date
May 25, 1807
Medium
Hand-colored etching; reverse copy
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 11/16 × 12 5/8 in. (22 × 32 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
59.533.988
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Original Met record Wikidata Artist authority

Artist information

British, London 1757–1827 London|Irish (active Dublin), 1799–1820

Subjects and terms

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

The Met object ID 811247. 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.