Disturbers of domestic happiness [graphic].Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[approximately 1868?]eng"A house is attacked while a lady and a young girl sleep on a couch at center. Three bandits wield weapons, and one takes hold of the necklace of the lady. Another group of armed gentleman approach from the stairs at right."--Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalogTitle etched below image.Attributed to Rowlandson in the Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog, accession no.: 59.533.1612.Engraved after the painting "1er Scène de voleurs" by Louis Léopold Boilly, now in the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille.Restrike of an intermediate state of the plate, with title present but before the border and additional stippling added. The titled state is given an original issue date of circa 1815 date in the Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog.Plate originally issued without title; see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 810.00.00.59. This untitled state might be the plate described under the name "Banditti" in: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 297.Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?]