'Mrs Bundle in a rage'

Details

Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
'Mrs Bundle in a rage'
inscribed 'Mrs. Bundle in a Rage, or too late for the Stage.' (lower centre)
pencil, pen and ink and watercolour
7¼ x 10¾ in. (18.4 x 27.3 cm.)

Provenance

with Spink-Leger.

Exhibited

Birmingham, Cotman Gallery, June 1931.
London, Spink-Leger, British Watercolours and Drawings, 12 November-12 December 1998, no. 23.

Engraved

R. Ackermann, 1 February 1809.

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Lot Essay

A similar, although slightly smaller and less finished watercolour with the same title, is in the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection and was engraved and published by R. Ackermann, see J. Baskett and D. Snelgrove, Rowlandson's Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection, London, 1977, no. 88, illustrated.

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