Thomas Rowlandson
The Inattentive Hired Nurse

CultureBritish
Titles
  • The Inattentive Hired Nurse
  • The Miseries of Human Life
Date1806
MediumPen with black, gray, and vermillion ink and watercolor over graphite on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 11 9/16 × 9 1/4 in. (29.4 × 23.5 cm)
Mount: 12 1/4 × 9 3/4 in. (31.1 × 24.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2022.239
Non exposé

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Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist; [Susan Schulman Fine Art, Inc., New York, as of 2021-2022]; purchased by MFAH, 2022.
Exhibition HistoryNone known
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed and dated in watercolor, right bottom edge: Rowlandson 1806
None known
Catalogue raisonnéNone

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