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The Billiard Room

Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827)


Price
£3,500

Medium
Watercolour with ink

Dimensions
4 ¾ x 8 ¼ inches

Provenance
The Leicester Galleries, London

Illustrated
William Combe, The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of a Wife, London: R Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1821, Plate 08, opposite page 138

Exhibited
'The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1806-2025', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, November 2025-January 2026, no 5

A working sketch for Dr Syntax in Search of a Wife. There is an etching of this image, in another hand, in the collection of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts in San Francisco.


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