Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827, British, A Maiden Aunt Smelling Fire, 1804
- Title:
A Maiden Aunt Smelling Fire
- Additional Title(s):
Caught in the Act
- Date:
- 1804
- Medium:
- Watercolor and graphite with pen and red-brown and pen and gray ink on medium, slightly textured, beige, wove paper, mounted on, thick, moderately textured, beige, wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Mount: 14 5/16 x 11 1/2 inches (36.4 x 29.2 cm) and Sheet: 11 3/8 x 8 9/16 inches (28.9 x 21.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen in red brown ink, lower left: "Rowlandson 1804"; on support mount, in black ink lower right: "SCIPIO" (H. S. Reitlinger collector's stamp, Lugt. 2274a); on support mount, in graphite lower center: [only the very tip of inscription visible]; Verso: in graphite, lower left: "C422"
Watermark
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.3.114
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- candle | cat (domestic cat) | doorway | fire | genre subject | interior | lovers | maid | man | nude | shoes | smell | staircase | window
- Access:
- View by request in the Study Room
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5613
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28)
Simon Schama, Rowlandson in the Round, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, Issue no. 3963, March 10, 1978, p. 282, Film S748 (SML) Also available Online in TLS Historical Archive (ORBIS)
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