A culley pillag’d

Thomas Rowlandson

A culley pillag’d

London, S W Fores July 1^st 1802

Etching

Original hand colouring

245 x 350 mm

£280

The cully, a thin, middle-aged man, stands terrified in a squalid bedroom between a bully (left) and a young prostitute (right) seated on a bed. The bully takes him by the shoulders, the woman picks his pocket. An overturned chair, a cat in a water-jug, and a rat eating from a plate on the floor add to the squalid disorder.