The Property of a Lady
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)

Details
Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)

The Library of the Royal Institution, Albermarle Street

pencil, pen and ink and watercolour
7¾ x 10 7/8in. (197 x 277mm.)
Provenance
The Gardner Collection, 1923
Captain Desmond Coke; Sotheby's, 21 July 1931, lot 101, (repr.) bought Rosenbach & Co
Widener; Parke-Bernet, 29 Nov. 1944, lot 341
Literature
J. Grego, Rowlandson The Caricaturist, II, London, 1880 p. 127, no. 68
Also repr. in Connoisseur, Dec. 1927
Engraved
Ackermann published The Microcosm of London in parts, starting in Spring 1808, he himself did not engrave the plates.
For R. Ackermann, after A.C. de Pugin and T. Rowlandson for The Microcosm of London, 1808 onwards

Lot Essay

Although the engravings are described as being after both Pugin and Rowlandson this drawing seems to be entirely the work of the latter, the drawing of the architectural features, especially the ceiling, being typical of his work. In the engraving, as well as the figures being slightly modified in pose (they retain the same positions), the bookshelves are more crisply delineated, and the ceiling and the coving left plain

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