Title: Preparing for Supper
Object type: Print
Date: October 22, 1789
Portfolio: Different Sensations, No. 1
Artist:  Thomas Rowlandson 
Artist bio: British, London 1757–1827 London
Artist nationality: British
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint
Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed and inlaid):  8 1/8 × 9 15/16 in. (20.6 × 25.2 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Satire, term: Men, term: Women, term: Dining, term: Servants