Real Inhabitants of This Earth
A British naval officer strolls along a quay with an elegantly dressed young woman on his arm. He looks through a monocle at a baggily dressed man and boy, whose dress represents the eccentricities of Dutch dress.
Credit: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by Exchange, 1970
January 10th, 1796
Stipple engraving and etching
29.5 x 24.3cm
1970.541.169
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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