Title: The Departure
Object type: Print
Date: April 29, 1784
Artist:  Thomas Rowlandson 
Artist bio: British, London 1757–1827 London
Artist nationality: British
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Hand-colored etching
Dimensions: Plate: 9 5/8 × 13 11/16 in. (24.4 × 34.8 cm)
Sheet (trimmed): 10 in. × 14 1/16 in. (25.4 × 35.7 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: Donkeys, term: Politics