The double disaster or new cure for love

Thomas Rowlandson

The double disaster or new cure for love

London, Thomas Tegg 10^th July 1807

Etching

Original hand colouring

200 x 270 mm

Trimmed to image, and around the  title

£140

In a country wash-house an old woman (l.) feeds the fire under a large round copper, from which a youth emerges, raising the loose wooden lid. A young woman (r.) deluges him with water from a pump. Another young woman, astonished, leaves the pitcher of beer which she has been filling from a beer-barrel to overflow. A cat runs off with a mouse.