Art, literature & history
Two Strings to Your Bow
1800
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- hand-colored etching
- Dimensions
- sheet: 22.1 × 28.2 cm (8 11/16 × 11 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1945.5.195
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Thomas Rowlandson. Two Strings to Your Bow. Thomas Rowlandson; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Rowlandson,_Two_Strings_to_Your_Bow,_1800,_NGA_30972.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Two Strings to Your Bow — Thomas Rowlandson. 1800.
Medium: hand-colored etching.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 22.1 × 28.2 cm (8 11/16 × 11 1/8 in.) .
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1945.5.195. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.