ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) ‘Dust-Ho’. Ink and watercolour. Signed, inscribed and dated, 1809. Ex. Coll: Guy Harvey-Samuel. Sold with a related etching - CLICK HERE TO VIEW. 6x9 inches. Framed: 14x17 inches.
ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827) ‘The Comforts of High Living’. Pen, ink and watercolour. Signed. S. W. Fores published an etching of the subject, 16th December 1794. Also published by Ackermann in 1807 as ‘Falstaff’s Wedding Night’. Provenance: Peter Rankin, from Andrew Edmunds. 4.5x7.25 inches. Framed: 9x11.5 inches.
ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827)
French Prisoners under Guard.
Ink and watercolour. 1794.
6x9 inches.
Rowlandson and Henry Angelo (1756-1835) visited Portsmouth in 1794 to see Lord Howe return from his 'Glorious 1st of June' victory. ' ... The morning following we saw, on the Gosport side, the landing of the French prisoners, numbers of different divisions filing off to the different stations allotted them. As for the wounded, previous to their quitting the boats, carts were placed alongside, and when filled, on the smack of the whip, were ordered to proceed. The sudden jolting made their groans appalling, and must have occasioned the wounds of many to produce an immediate haemorrhage...' (H. Angelo, Reminiscences, Vol. II, p.292).
ROWLANDSON Thomas (1756-1827)
Revellers outside a Village Inn.
Pencil with blue/grey watercolour wash. Signed and dated, 1804.
Ex.Collection: Major Leonard Dent D.S.O.
Exhibited: no.16, ‘Rowlandson: Drawings from Town and Country’, Reading Museum and Art Gallery. Spink-Leger.
Lit: p.7 ‘Hillfields: Notes on the Contents’, Colonel Leonard Dent, 1972. Provenance: lot 10, ‘The Dent Collection of watercolours and Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson’, Christies, 10th July 1984. ?Sothebys, 18th November, 1953 (? to Dent)
12.75x18 inches. Framed: 22x26.5 inches