THOMAS ROWLANDSON (1756/57-1827)

FIERCE AS STARING AJAX, FROM HIS SEAT UPROSE WITH VISAGE STERN, THE KING OF MEAT

FIERCE AS STARING AJAX, FROM HIS SEAT
UPROSE WITH VISAGE STERN, THE KING OF MEAT

Price £8500.00

PEN INK AND MONOCHROME WATERCOLOUR
6 1/4 X 8 INCHES
PROVENANCE: BERNARD HOUTHAKKER
ILLUSTRATED: (AS AN ENGRAVING) PETER PINDAR, THE LOUSIAD,
LONDON: G KEARSLEY, 1786-87, FRONTISPIECE
LITERATURE: J GREGO, ROWLANDSON THE CARICATURIST,
LONDON: CHATTO & WINDUS, 1880, VOLUME I,
PAGE 204, AS 'COOKS, SCULLIONS - HEAR ME,
EVERY MOTHER'S SON'
EXHIBITED: AS 'HANGING ON EVERY WORD: FIGURES IN AN INN';
SPINK, LONDON;
'DE VERZAMELING VAN BERNARD HOUTHAKKER',
AMSTERDAM RIJKSMUSEUM, AUGUST-NOVEMBER 1964, NO 87;
'BLISS WAS IT IN THAT DAWN TO BE ALIVE, 1750-1850',
OCTOBER 2008;
THE ILLUSTRATORS: THE BRITISH ART OF ILLUSTRATION 1800-2008;
PORTICO LIBRARY AND GALLERY, MANCHESTER,
NOVEMBER 2008 - JANUARY 2009

Artist: THOMAS ROWLANDSON (1756/57-1827)

Exhibitions: THE BRITISH ART OF ILLUSTRATION IN MANCHESTER - PORTICO LIBRARY AND GALLERY

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