THOMAS ROWLANDSON (1757-1827)
The Unwelcome Visitor, or, the Quaker in a Quake
c. 1800RCIN 913701
While the two main figures in this drawing of a comic encounter are heavily worked, the rest of the scene has been hastily sketched in. Rowlandson first drew the pregnant woman visiting a panicking man. He later added the man behind the door, whose gesture of duplicity indicates that the woman may be swindling her lover.
Purchased by George IV, 1828
Cat. 51