Dining Hall, Asylum, from Ackermann's Repository

A hand-colored aquatint of a long, sunlit dining hall with rows of tables where women in white caps and dark dresses sit and eat. Figures in the foreground and a birdcage near the left wall give scale to the vast, tiled interior with skylights.

Artist

Thomas Rowlandson

Date

1808

Medium

Aquatint, brush and watercolors on paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

3236 × 2618 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum