Water Engine

Water Engine, Cold-Bath-Field's Prison, Print made by John Bluck, active 1791–1831, British, after Augustus Charles Pugin, 1762–1832, French, after Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British, Published by R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1764–1834, British, 1808, Aquatint and etching with hand coloring on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, Sheet: 12 5/8 x 9 7/16 inches (32 x 24 cm), Plate: 11 1/4 x 9 5/16 inches (28.5 x 23.6 cm), and Image: 10 1/16 x 7 3/8 inches (25.5 x 18.8 cm), architectural subject, architecture, beams (structural elements), bricks, chains, coats, correctional institution, costume, doors, engine, fountain, genre subject, gesture, hats, illustration, labor, men, pointing, prison, prisoners, stripes, trousers, waistcoats, water, wheel, windows, work, workers, Clerkenwell, Coldbath Fields Prison, England, Greater London, Islington, Mount Pleasant, United Kingdom. (Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)