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Hand-coloured print of men turning a water engine wheel in a timber-roofed prison courtyard with barred windows.

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Water engine, Cold-Bath-Field’s Prison, London, Thomas Rowlandson (1808), The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Via artnap.com

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A hand-coloured aquatint titled Water Engine, Cold-Bath-Field's Prison, shows men in striped clothing turning a large wheel beside a pump, while a man in a yellow coat and another figure stand in a timber-roofed courtyard. Barred windows and a chained door line the surrounding prison buildings. The print is attributed to Thomas Rowlandson and dated 1808.

Museum record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art