Girl with a Basket and Birdcage Adjusting Her Garter

Etcher Thomas Rowlandson British
 After (?) Francis Wheatley British

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A country girl has set down a basket loaded with vegetables, props herself on a tree, and exposes her leg to tie her garter. Behind her, a man she is unaware of leans over the notch of a tree to admire her.

Girl with a Basket and Birdcage Adjusting Her Garter, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Etching

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Girl with a Basket and Birdcage Adjusting Her Garter, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Etching
Girl with a Basket and Birdcage Adjusting Her Garter, Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London), Etching

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