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Prints and Drawings 115

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Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827 115
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1728–1774 2

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Accessible in the Study Room 115

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Free to Use 115

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available 115

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Drawings & Watercolors 114
Drawings & Watercolors-Sketchbooks 1

Collective Title

Illustrations to "The Vicar of Wakefield" 2
Bound Volume of 15, Original Water Colour Drawings, by Thomas Rowlandson 1

Period

18th century 57
19th century 43
18th century-19th century 15

Materials & Techniques

pen 102
watercolor 99
graphite 98
wove paper 80
gray ink 73
brown ink 67
black ink 51
laid paper 42
red ink 26
gray wash 16
wash 6
brown wash 4
tracing 3
blue wash 2
gouache 1
ink 1

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Work Type

drawing 115
watercolor 101
frontispiece 1

Genre

genre subject 79
landscape 14
cityscape 10
marine art 7
sporting art 7
architectural subject 5
portrait 5
historical subject 2
military art 2
animal art 1
figure study 1
religious and mythological subject 1

Subject Terms

genre subject 73
men 67
women 45
hats 27
windows 25
dog (animal) 22
horses (animals) 21
man 20
trees 19
woman 17
buildings 15
doorway 14
food 13
landscape 13
crowd 12
interior 12
water 12
boats 10
chairs 10
cityscape 10
dogs (animals) 10
children 9
soldiers 9
drinking 8
marine art 8
window 8
baskets 7
people by activity 7
sitting 7
sporting art 7

Subject Period

Associated Places

Europe 44
United Kingdom 40
England 38
Bath 10
Somerset 10
Bath and Northeast Somerset 8
London 7
Cornwall 4
Devon 3
Greater London 3
Hampshire 3
Isle of Wight 3
Bodmin 2
Covent Garden 2
Cymru 2
Drury Lane 2
France 2
Greenwich 2
Gwynedd 2
Plymouth 2
Southampton 2
Wakefield 2
Wales 2
Yorkshire 2
Africa 1
Amsterdam 1
Berkshire 1
Blackheath 1
Bodmin Moor 1
Buckinghamshire 1

Associated People

Bannister, John (1760–1836), actor 2
Abington, Frances (1737–1815), actress 1
Bartolozzi, Francesco (1728–1815), engraver 1
Cavendish [née Spencer], Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806), political hostess 1
Cupid 1
Douglas, William, 4th Duke of Queensbury (1725–1810) 1
Moser, George Michael (1706–1783) 1
Ponsonby [née Spencer], Henrietta Frances [Harriet], countess of Bessborough (1761–1821), noblewoman 1
Venus 1

Exhibition History

Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28) 115

Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15) 115
Thomas Rowlandson from the Paul Mellon Collection (National Sporting Library and Museum, 2005-04-14 - 2005-06-10) 24
The Pursuit of Happiness - A View of Life in Georgian England (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-09-18) 9
Thomas Rowlandson (Art Services Int'l) (The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1990-06-23 - 1990-08-05) 9
Thomas Rowlandson (Art Services Int'l) (The Frick Art Museum, 1990-04-21 - 1990-06-03) 9
Thomas Rowlandson (Art Services Int'l) (The Frick Collection, 1990-02-10 - 1990-04-08) 9
Thomas Rowlandson - Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England (Block Museum of Art, 2011-01-14 - 2011-03-13) 8
Thomas Rowlandson - Pleasures and Pursuits in Georgian England (Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 2011-04-08 - 2011-06-12) 8
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) 6
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) 6
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13) 5
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30) 5
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17) 5
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 5
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27) 4
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 4
Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31) 3
British Comic Art 1730 - 1830 (Museum of Art and Archaelogy, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988-10-14 - 1988-12-04) 3
Roads to Rails - Revolution in British Transport (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-04-15 - 1992-06-28) 3
The Burlington Fine Art and Antique Dealers' Fair Ltd. (Royal Academy of Arts, 1982-03-12 - 1982-03-21) 3
British Vision - Observation and Imagination in British Art (Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, 2007-10-06 - 2008-01-13) 2
English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (National Gallery of Canada, 1985-02-26 - 1985-05-10) 2
English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (The Library of Congress, 1984-11-13 - 1985-02-26) 2
English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985-06-04 - 1985-09-05) 2
English Caricature - 1620 to the Present (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-09-01 - 1985-11-13) 2
James Gillray and the Art of Caricature (Tate Britain, 2001-07-07 - 2001-09-02) 2
Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07) 1
Below Stairs - The Servant (National Portrait Gallery, 2003-10-01 - 2004-02-14) 1
Below Stairs - The Servant (Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 2004-02-27 - 2004-05-31) 1

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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 115

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Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

The Picnic

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Interior of a Dressing Room with Jack Bannister

between 1790 and 1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Venus Crowned by Cupid

between 1810 and 1815
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

The Vicar of Wakefield: Frontispiece

1817
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Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

The Family Picture

1817
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Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Diners in a Chop Shop

between 1800 and 1805
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Comforts of Bath: Gouty Gourmands at Dinner

1798
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Comforts of Bath: The Concert

1798
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Comforts of Bath: Coaches Arriving

1798
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Comforts of Bath: The Pump Room

1798
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Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Comforts of Bath: The Music Master

1798
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Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

The Comforts of Bath: The Breakfast

1798
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

The Dying Sailor

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

A Review in a Market Place

ca. 1790
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

The Duchess of Devonshire and the Countess of Bessborough

1790
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Bodmin Moor

ca. 1825
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

George Moser

ca. 1815
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Ladies at Tea

between 1790 and 1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

A Potter Going Out

between 1815 and 1820
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

'The Doctor is so Severely Bruised that Cupping is Judged Necessary'

between 1809 and 1811
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Vauxhall Gardens

ca. 1784
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Bodmin Cornwall: The Arrival of the Stage-Coach

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

A Merchant's Office

1789
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

An Old Coquette Outstood her Market

between 1815 and 1820
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Plymouth Dock

1817
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Labourers at Rest

between 1790 and 1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

A Review on Blackheath, May 1785

1785
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Death and the Debauchee

between 1814 and 1816
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

A Carrier's Waggon

between 1785 and 1790
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Travelling in France

between 1785 and 1789
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

A Horse Sale in Hopkins's Repository, Barbican

between 1798 and 1800
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

The Stable of an Inn

ca. 1790
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

The Return from the Hunt

1787
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

How to Vault in the Saddle

1813
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

The Gardener's Offering

between 1803 and 1805
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Embarkation at Southampton, June 20th 1794

1794
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Comforts of Bath: Private Practice Previous to the Ball

1798
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Comforts of Bath: The Ball

1798
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Comforts of Bath: Gouty Persons Fall on Steep HIll

1798
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Jack Bannister in his Dressing Room

1783
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Parisian Street Figures

1786
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

A Group of Five Bulls about to Fight

ca. 1810
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Female Dancer with a Tambourine

between 1790 and 1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

A Maiden Aunt Smelling Fire

1804
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Horsemen Colliding

between 1785 and 1790
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Mr. Drummond's Cottage, East Cowes, Isle of Wight

between 1797 and 1800
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Bodmin Cornwall: French Prisoners on Parole

1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

View of the Market Place at Juliers in Westphalia

1791
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

A Man Driving a Team of Six Girls

between 1778 and 1780
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Register Office for the Hiring of Servants

between 1800 and 1805
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

A Tub Thumper

between 1817 and 1820
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

The Connoisseurs

ca. 1790
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Two Greyhounds Lying under a Tree

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

The Waggoner's Rest

between 1800 and 1805
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

The Doctor's Consultation

1815-1820
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

A Military Escapade

between 1794 and 1800
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Review of Light Horse Volunteers on Wimbledon Common

1798
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Distress

1790 to 1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Carnarvon Castle, North Wales

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Serving Punch

between 1815 and 1820
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Tintagel Castle

between 1785 and 1790
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Francesco Bartolozzi

ca. 1815
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Outside the Greengrocer's Shop

between 1805 and 1810
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Dr Graham's Bathing Establishment

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Harvesters Setting Out

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

A Summer Idyll

between 1810 and 1815
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Dr. Syntax Copying the Wit of the Window

between 1809 and 1812
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

A Sporting Cove

between 1815 and 1820
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

The Launching of H.M.S. 'Hibernia' 1804

ca. 1804
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Newport High Street, Isle of Wight

between 1797 and 1800
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

A Worn Out Debauchée

between 1790 and 1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Study of a Shouting Man

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Newbury Market Place, Berkshire

between 1815 and 1820
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

An Audience Watching a Play at Drury Lane Theatre

ca. 1785
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Embarkation at Southampton, June 20th 1794 (Version A)

1794
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Three Full-Length Figures of Men Talking

ca. 1815
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Skating on the Serpentine

before 1790
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

The Recruiting Sargeant

ca. 1790
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

The Prospect Before Us

1788
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Entrance to Festiniog, Wales

1797
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

A Burial at Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight

between 1797 and 1800
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

The Canterbury-Dover Coach Passing Vanbrugh Castle

between 1795 and 1800
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Four O'Clock in the Country

between 1788 and 1790
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Horses and a Cart at a Sandpit

between 1785 and 1790
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

The Ivory Coast, West Africa

between 1810 and 1815
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

The South Gate, Exeter

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Mr. Michell's Picture Gallery, Grove House, Enfield 1817

1817
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

The Gaming Table

1801
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

A Book Auction

between 1810 and 1815
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

The Opera Singers

between 1790 and 1795
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

River Landscape with a Waterfall

between 1795 and 1800
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Quakers' Meeting

ca. 1810
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Norwich Market Place

undated
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

A Timber Waggon

ca. 1790
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

An Artist's Studio

1814
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Death Turned Pilot

between 1815 and 1816
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

The Elopement

1792
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Bucks of the First Head

ca. 1785
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

The Actresses Dressing Room at Drury Lane

between 1800 and 1810
Accessible in the Study Room
Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827

Angry Scene in a Street

between 1805 and 1810

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