Hand-colored print of a crowded Roman Catholic chapel interior with galleries, a domed ceiling, and worshippers kneeling in.

The Roman Catholic Chapel, Lincoln's Inn Fields

A hand-colored aquatint of a domed chapel interior, its two tiers of galleries crowded with onlookers. Richly dressed worshippers kneel and stand on the floor in the foreground, while an altar glows beneath a small oculus in the vault.

Look closer: Small figures of spectators lean over the upper gallery railings at the right edge.

Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Date: April 1, 1808
Medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size: 3200 × 2659 px

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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1808).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959

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