Title: The Pit of Acheron or The Birth of the Plagues of England
Object type: Print
Date: January 28, 1784
Artist:  Thomas Rowlandson 
Artist bio: British, London 1757–1827 London
Artist nationality: British
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Hand-colored etching
Dimensions: Sheet: 11 1/16 in. × 13 in. (28.1 × 33 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Geography: Published in London         
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Satire, term: Men, term: Women, term: Fire, term: Politics