THOMAS ROWLANDSON (LONDON 1756-1827)
Figures outside a coaching inn
pencil, pen and black ink and watercolour
11 ¾ x 17 ½ in. (30 x 44.5 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Palais Galliéra, Paris, 7 March 1972, lot 112. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 July 2011, lot 128, where purchased by the present owner.
There is a comparable composition with a slightly different distribution of figures and architecture by Rowlandson, executed on a smaller scale and dated 1827, at the Art Institute of Chicago, Charles Netcher II Memorial Collection.
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