The House Breakers

The House Breakers

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Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
The House Breakers

Pen and grey ink and washes over pencil on laid paper
21 by 27.1 cm., 8 1/4 by 10 1/2 in.

Provenance:
Lord Cross of Chelsea;
With Leger Galleries, London, where bought by the present owner October 1983

Another version of this subject was published as an aquatint by Thomas Malton in 1788 and republished by S.W. Fores in 1791.