The sad discovery or the graceless apprentice.

Thomas Rowlandson

The sad discovery or the graceless apprentice.

London, S W Fores, Juky 1^st 1802

Etching

Original hand colouring

245 x 345 mm

£240

The interior of a bedroom. A young man crawls from under a large four-post bed on which a young woman is kneeling, holding up her arms in supplication towards an elderly man and woman in night attire who have entered from the right behind a watchman and a man with a blunderbuss; the latter kneels, pointing his weapon at the apprentice. The watchman puts his staff under the bed to push out the apprentice; his lantern stands on the floor beside him