St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the interior of the women's ward, with many inmates and a member of staff. Coloured aquatint by J.C. Stadler after A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827
- Date:
- 1 August 1809
- Reference:
- 26055i
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Credit: St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the interior of the women's ward, with many inmates and a member of staff. Coloured aquatint by J.C. Stadler after A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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The text in the Microcosm does not describe the activity undertaken in this print, mentioning that the women are within one of the two end blocks. Some of them may be working at cleaning animal skins, others are gesturing fantastically or standing in a melancholy way
Publication/Creation
London : R. Ackermann, 1 August 1809.
Physical description
1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; image 19.3 x 26 cm
Lettering
St Luke's Hospital ; Rowlandson & Pugin delt. et sculpt. ; J. C. Stadler aquat.
Bears number: 77
References note
B. Adams, London illustrated, London, 1983, number 99/77 [p.227]
Reference
Wellcome Collection 26055i
Reproduction note
Dance's original designs for St Luke's are in Sir John Soane's House and Museum
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