Does anyone know the artist who did the sketch of a foolish servant who digs up 
a sundial in order to answer his gouty master's inquiry about the time?  It 
looks to me like Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), but I have been unable to 
identify it or a collection that contains it.  I have put an image in this 
Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7skufivsr5vfunh/Dug%20up%20sundial.jpg


Thanks!
Sara


Sara J. Schechner, Ph.D.
David P. Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific 
Instruments
Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
Science Center 251c, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617-496-9542   |   Fax: 617-496-5932   |   [email protected]
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/chsi.html

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