Title: Opening a Vein
Object type: Print
Date: 1784–86
Artist:  Thomas Rowlandson 
Artist bio: British, London 1757–1827 London
Artist nationality: British
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 5 5/8 × 7 1/16 in. (14.3 × 18 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: Illness, term: Men, term: Women