Thomas Rowlandson (British, 1756 - 1827)

Love Laughs at Locksmiths
Etching on paper with original hand-colouring, approx. 330 by 240 mm, trimmed outside platemark, slight surface dirt and slighty darked in the cut-out area of the matting. Designed and published by T. Rowlandson, James Street, Adelphi. August 20, 1811. Untouched condition with older hand-coloured mat slighty stained.

Delightful print by the English artist most renowned for his caricatures.

The stronghold in which an old Israelite has confined his treasure has enormous padlocks on the area gate and the door studded with nails. The proprietor has returned with provisions for a merry-making ; a porter bearing on his head a basket containing geese, fowls, fish, and fruit, with a flask of wine in his hand. The old curmudgeon's crutch is leaning against the door, and he is fumbling over the immense padlock, quite unconscious that a smart young officer, who has placed a ladder against the window of his lovely inamorata's apartment, is helping the captive bird to freedom from the clutches of her jealous jailer.

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